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WHAT LIBERALS ARE SAYING ABOUT MONDAY'S LEADERSHIP SPILL MEETING:

"The only question for our party is do we want reduce ourselves to the level of the Labor Party in dragging down a first-term prime minister?"

- Tony Abbott tells reporters in Sydney on Sunday.

"It's inconceivable it would be in the best interests of either the Liberal Party or the country for the prime minister to go into the parliament tomorrow with this issue unresolved."

- Cabinet minister Mathias Cormann.

"I'm in the cabinet, of course I support the prime minister, everyone supports the prime minister. You don't have to keep on saying that all the time."

- Malcolm Turnbull tells reporters outside his Sydney home on Sunday morning.

"If you are going to be disloyal to someone, you should front them. If I disagreed with the prime minister and if I believed he wasn't the best person to lead the team I would step down from the cabinet - that is the appropriate thing to do"

- Treasurer Joe Hockey when asked whether Tony Abbott could expect all cabinet ministers to oppose the spill motion.

"If, for whatever reason, the leadership of a political party is vacant then any member of the party can stand, whether they be a minister or a backbencher, without any disloyalty to the person whose leadership has been declared vacant."

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What Liberals are saying about the spill