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" I have always thought, genuinely thought, that elections are like world cups. They sometimes look easier from the outside and they are very difficult when you are in the middle of them. "

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" I care about people's human rights and, as a country, we have a very proud record indeed. But I'm also realistic about what we can do... we can raise those issues with leaders and we can talk about those issues, and we do that. "

" The world, whether we like it or not, will become more and more borderless. "

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" My mother had an incredibly strong accent - although I couldn't hear it - and she was the main person there, so I'll have learnt to speak English from her. "

" We are a small, open economy, highly dependent on global flows. It is inevitably a demand that dramatically alters and that is reflected in what we feel here in New Zealand. So there is at its most basic level a limit to what we can do and that is true everywhere. "

" We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will. "

" Let's just get a deal done then let's worry about expanding it. "

" I used to think... that people would think badly of me for various stuff they read. But now I accept it's just part of the deluge of stuff that comes every day. "

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" I've always been a glass-half-full as opposed to a glass-half-empty, and the day that changes is the day I should leave. "

" The Government has to stop borrowing as much money; if we don't, quite frankly New Zealand will be downgraded and interest rates will go up for all New Zealanders. "

" You are not going to change me and if you do, it will look like a fraud, it will be a fraud. "

John Key

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" I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society. "

" We live in a world where equality is pretty important. "

" Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't. "

" New Zealand as a whole needs to save more, spend less and reduce our reliance on foreign debt. "

" I have more engagement with New Zealand than people might think. Unlike the impression I have of the American president, who sits in the Oval Office and people come to them. "

" I'm not deeply ideologically driven. I believe in good center-right politics. "

" The public talk colloquially, the public's grammar's not perfect. They kid around and I don't think they overly mark me down for that. They just see me as a normal guy. "

" I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me to kid around. "

" I dare you to show me one example where I haven't discharged my responsibility seriously, professionally and appropriately. "

" There is much more good gained from having a fully functioning financial market than there ever is not having that. "

" I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it, because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family. "

" New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities, because the risk is that if you don't do that - and you want to lead the world - then you might end up getting unintended consequences. "

" Sunday night I always cook if I can - if I'm home, I always cook. "

" You can't base an industry solely on one person. That's a very vulnerable business strategy. "

" If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that. "

" I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others. "

" I think what happens when you are prime minister is no day is the same and every day you are under pressure. And there is always so much happening that the days just flash by and flash into weeks. "

" I guess I'm reasonably confident in all honesty. But I definitely don't think I'm arrogant. I'm pretty down to earth, I mean I'm genuinely down to earth. "