Investment is crucial. Because the truth is, you only get jobs and growth in the economy when people invest money, at their own risk, in setting up a business or expanding an existing business.

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.

Our opponents say more children are living in poverty than when we came into office. And that's probably right.

It would be stupid of me to rule out ever being the leader because that's an impossible thing to rule out. I can't predict future events.

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

We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record

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

I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

While his removal will not necessarily bring an immediate end to terrorist activity, I have absolutely no doubt that the world is a safer place without Osama Bin Laden.

Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, including New Zealanders, in several different parts of the world.

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

Just because you're beautiful and perfect, it's made you conceited.

Poetry is an act of peace. Peace goes into the making of a poet as flour goes into the making of bread.

The worst that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

At the door is at the door. Beware, there are wolves.

Publishers are businesses and I don’t blame them for that. If they didn’t make money by publishing books, there wouldn’t be any books.

Evolution strikes me as infinitely more spiritually profound than Genesis.

Is such an alliance helpful to us in this day and age? Are we creating a cold war in order to justify NATO?

A carpenter is known by his chips.

It doesn't matter; even if you do tend to wear the same things all the time, it's how you wear them and your attitude that counts.

Nobody is as smart as everybody.