Helen Clark People Quotations

Our rates are disturbing and will deliver poor health long-term to many of our people at a very high cost to the taxpayer.

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.

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.

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.

People are optimistic about the future.

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

We can take pride ... in being nuclear free and in having the strength and independence not to send our young people off to fight in unjust wars,

We've got 40 000 places in our working holiday scheme for young people of other countries to come work and live in our country on a receptacle basis.

So as other people poach our people, we have to poach other people because we want to have an economy that works well.

I know Indonesia. I know what they want. The people as well as the armed forces are behind me,