John Key Quotations

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.

Bronagh looks after the kids and without her the family would disintegrate... there are some things you can't discuss with anyone other than your wife. There has to be a strong bond of trust.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.