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" Business can talk itself into a blue funk. "

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" People are optimistic about the future. "

" 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. "

" If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries. "

" 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. "

" Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries. "

" I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through. "

" We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy. "

" Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks. "

" In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government. "

" I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom. "

" Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" We don't want to deal with a separatist party. "

" I'm not into power for the sake of it. "

" There is also a marked global trend towards sustainable agriculture, building on traditional methods which use fewer chemical inputs, carefully manage soil and water resources, and work hand-in-hand with nature. "

" Health and education are always issues. "

" Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding. "

" Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case. "

" Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American. "

" 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. "

" I have no beliefs of a religious kind. "

" I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. "

" It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets. "

" I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis. "

" Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it. "

" 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. "

" New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues. "

" Well, we don't think for a moment that either the U.S. or Australia are out to damage the New Zealand economy, but if there were a sustained period in which they had a free-trade agreement and New Zealand didn't have that same arrangement with the States, that could be both trade- and investment-distorting. "