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Never look back' is my philosophy.
I'm not into power for the sake of it.
I have no beliefs of a religious kind.
People are optimistic about the future.
Health and education are always issues.
Never look back. Move on. Aim high. Etc.
Business can talk itself into a blue funk.
I only take on roles that I'm passionate about.
Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.
Greens are not expected to be anything but nice.
I think more than anything, that's when I decided politics was on.
Of course I have an opinion on many things but I don't micromanage.
New Zealanders who leave for Australia raise the IQ of both countries
My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.
Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable
Today's Schools are not Tomorrows Schools. That's a fundamental misconception.
Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.
I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone.
The first day you're a leader is the beginning of the end of your political career.
Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.
Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.
New Zealand was colonised initially by those Australians who had the initiative to escape.
No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.
NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.
New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years.
One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament.
Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.
We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.
Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.
I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.
Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.
I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through.
Shaping the future is what drives me. Since I left politics, I'm very much interested in emerging markets.
Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.
Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks.
I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world.
We're a nation in search of an identity, but it's quite exciting. I don't regard it as a problem. It's a challenge.
I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.
If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested.
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.
Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.
New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand.
In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.
We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.
I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.
I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.
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.
New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues.
After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall.