Helen Clark Quotes
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I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going into Parliament. I have always railed against it privately.
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Business can talk itself into a blue funk.
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Never look back' is my philosophy.
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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.
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Never look back. Move on. Aim high. Etc.
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Adopting and promoting sustainable production practices require concerted effort, something which in practice is too often missing or insufficient. Making this shift at the scale required demands forward-looking leadership in the public and private sectors alike.
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I'm not into power for the sake of it.
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New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand.
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Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.
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Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.
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Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.
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Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.
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People are optimistic about the future.
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I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.
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I only take on roles that I'm passionate about.
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No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.
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I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world.
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I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.
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Fortunately New Zealand doesn't have land borders so we are able to be somewhat more rigorous on who gets in and out of our country than perhaps some people.
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I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.
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In terms of protecting ourselves, the main issues are around how do we protect our borders [from illegal migrants and livestock and plant diseases], how do we protect our fisheries?
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As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.
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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.
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We need a lot of thinking and ideas. We need all the innovators, particularly with the new sustainable technologies - how do we get them to affordability so that people can generate clean energy?
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If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.
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Of course I have an opinion on many things but I don't micromanage.
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Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.
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Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable
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I have no beliefs of a religious kind.
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I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through.
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