Quotes by Jenny Shipley - Page 1

I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Assistance
I Can
Life Me See
Assist
Permissive
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The first day you're a leader is the beginning of the end of your political career.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Political Career
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Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Courage
Wisdom
Fragile
Fragile Things
Secure
Thing
Fragile Thing
Maintain
Takes
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NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Women
Government
Improving
Play
Roles
Significant
Alongside
Governments
Ngos
Role
Status
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New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Defence
Relation
Significant
Taken
Two
Years
Decisions
Zealand
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Shaping the future is what drives me. Since I left politics, I'm very much interested in emerging markets.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Emerging
Drives
Shaping
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Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Equality
Development
Point Of View
Sisterhood
Understood
Views
Achieved
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I'm not sure that it matters as much to women as to our male colleagues to have the public adulation and be on the public mind.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Adulation
Colleagues
Male
Public Mind
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I was brought up in a family of leaders, and I think leadership is a life sentence. I like changing things that will shape the future.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Sentence
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The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Arsenal
Destruction
Nuclear
Progress
Reducing
Weapons
World
Begin
Gradually
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The government's position was that we have frigates that have got a useful life until 2006. There is no necessity for us to make final decisions until 2002.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Decisions
Useful
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By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Country
Fortunate
Including
Made
New Zealand
Other Countries
Progress
Compared
Countries
Large
Region
Zealand
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People often think that people like me don't have ordinary lives. I have the greatest pleasure, and in fact, the greatest success in my career is having been a mother.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Ordinary
Success Me People
Greatest Pleasure
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I am not a supporter of the rhetoric of, 'Dear, dear, the toys have got lead paint.' If I had a manufacturer in China that allowed that to happen, I'd fire them instantly.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Dear
Paint
Rhetoric
Supporter
Instantly
Manufacturer
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It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Ocean
Country
Historical
Identity
Important
Pacific
Pacific Ocean
Covers
Cultural
Ethnic
Quarter
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The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Independence
Access
Achieve
Economic Independence
Emphasis
Facts
Giving
Insufficient
Resources
Due
Globally
Platform
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Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Future
Action
Children
Commitment
Difficult
Grandchildren
Hollow
Insufficient
Issues
Speak
Act
Commitments
Expect
Tolerated
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Men are shameless in selling their story. Women are often reserved. So we do need to encourage women to know their story and then tell it strategically as to how they can add value.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Add
Reserved
Selling
Shameless
Women Are
Encourage
Women Men Know
Women Men Value
Strategically
Value
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With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Adoption
Community
Declaration
Elimination
International
International Community
Messages
Violence
Clear Message
Sent
Tolerated
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The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Home
Decision
Destroyed
France
Nuclear
Pacific
Raised
Storm
Testing
Resume
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The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Former
Great Hope
Halt
Issues
Nuclear
Pacific
President
Weapons
Issue
Region
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In New Zealand, men and women would not take a party seriously if it did not have a good gender - and increasingly racial - mix. It's not about being politically correct; it's just who we are.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Men And Women
New Zealand
Politically Correct
Good Men Women
Correct
Good Women Men
Increasingly
Mix
Racial
Zealand
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I do remember when I first went into politics, one of my competitors asked me, 'Well, Jenny Shipley, who's looking after your children?' I don't think many of my male colleagues have faced a similar question.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Colleagues
Competitors
Remember When
Politics Your Me
Male
Similar
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Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Appraisal
Decision
Decision Making
Nations
Organization
Participation
Ten
United Nations
Years
Years Ago
Effectively
Essential
Interests
Processes
Serve
Ten Years
Ten Years Ago
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On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Aspect
Integrated
Nations
Needs
New Zealand
Structure
United Nations
Activities
Aspects
Concerns
Ensure
Fully
Marginalised
Spoken
Zealand
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The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Able
Community
Today
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The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Behalf
Full Potential
World Bank
Women Today World
Women Are
Bank
Communities
Facing
Local
Solved
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The Open Skies issue is something that's ongoing and we understand that there are issues in Australia that need to be sorted out. It's something that I think over time there's an opportunity for us and we'll work on that in a progressive way.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Opportunity
Ongoing
Sky
Thinking
Work Time Opportunity
Issue
Skies
Sorted
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When I hear people flatteringly say, 'You're an expert on East Asia...' I'm certainly an observer of East Asia, and central Asia, and ASEAN, and to a lesser extent South Asia and the Gulf, but there's always something behind the wall in China.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Asean
East
East Asia
South Asia
Always People Something
Central
Expert
Extent
Gulf
Hear People
Lesser
Lesser Extent
Observer
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Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Girl
Health
Demand
Development
Every Second
Lost
Planning
Thrive
Address
Year
Contribute
Every Day
Fail
Opportunities
Real People
Reproductive
Second
Services
Shrink
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Chinese people as consumers, while they've always valued food and beverage for the health food qualities, they are also now wanting it in terms of other values: 'Does this speak about my position in society? Am I now middle-class, and does this matter to me?'
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Chinese
Beverage
Chinese People
Valued
Qualities
Wanting
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What we need is to understand that women won't often apply for a job until they're almost 95% qualified. So they tick the box and say, 'If I can't do it all, I can't be qualified.' Men look at the same job, and as long as they get to about 60%, they'll apply.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Qualified
Tick
Men Women Long
Apply
Box
Women Men Look
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Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Arrangements
Decision
Decision Making
Desire
Males
Secure
Stewardship
Term
Male
Attempt
Dominated
Expressed
Informal
Mechanisms
Secure Peace
Structures
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I hear so many people talking about what's wrong, whether it's climate change or whatever, but so few say, 'Well, look, we've got this problem, so let's find the solution. Let's find a scientist, let's find politicians who are prepared to shape the future, or try and keep up with it.'
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Climate Change
Prepared
Scientist
Politicians
Solution
So Many People
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The serious problems facing the world... will only be solved if women have a seat at the table and are listened to as to what is required. These issues will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families and their global and local communities.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Behalf
Full Potential
Women Are
Seat
Communities
Facing
Listened
Required
Solved
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Diversity is not a politically correct idea. Diversity in a boardroom or in a Parliament means that you just have different minds, different life experience, different ways of thinking about patients or customers or voters so that when you bring that intellect, you look at opportunity and risk, and then you have it in much better balance.
Jenny Shipley / Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Different Life
Intellect
Life Experience
Parliament
Politically Correct
Voters
Life Experience Thinking
Correct
Patients
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