WHAT THEY SAID ABOUT THAT CALL
US PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP
"It's time we have to be a little tough, folks."
"I love Australia as a country but I have a problem where for whatever reason President Obama said they were going to take probably well over 1000 illegal immigrants who were in prisons."
"If a previous administration does something you have to respect that but you can also say 'why are we doing this?'" PRIME MINISTER MALCOLM TURNBULL
"He is clearly a very big personality."
"It was very frank. It was forthright."
"Well, it depends on your definition of cordial. I'm quoting his spokesman as saying it was cordial."
"It is very important that it goes ahead because it will enable us to secure resettlement options for people." OTHERS
"The US-Australia relationship is big enough, old enough and ugly enough to cope with this snafu." - Former prime minister Kevin Rudd.
"Everybody who thinks that simply because we're allies the conversations we have on the various issues we have between us are necessarily are all sweetness and light is somebody who knows nothing about the relationship." - Former Australian ambassador to Washington Kim Beazley.
"Malcolm Turnbull stood up to it and the reality is Australia's interests are being put first." - Cabinet minister Christopher Pyne.
"Malcolm Turnbull came out and said it was fixed. Then we've have had a shambles whereby we've had the US president try to conduct foreign policy and diplomacy through Twitter." - Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese.
"Australia is a very central ally." - US House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan.
"Australia, they fought alongside us in wars including losing over 500 brave Australians in the Vietnam War, which some of us remember." - US Senator John McCain.
