Our party supports decriminalisation of cannabis. It's not a priority for this election campaign but it has been a long-standing policy of ours.

You don't have to be a rocket scientist to prove that cutting incomes to the poorest families will have a negative impact on kids. That is less money for the basics like food, health and clothes.

I've watched Jamie Oliver 's Food Revolution, he wants better school lunches for children in the US and UK. In NZ, we want Kiwi kids to have school lunches!

It's not ok when around 1 million New Zealanders don't vote.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

A friend can give you the freedom to think differently.

No sane local official who has hung up an empty stocking over the municipal fireplace is going to shoot Santa Claus just before a hard Christmas.

Hope is merely another face of desire.

We didn't have the time to watch playback all the time so I depended on my team [All We Had].

God bless pop music and God bless MTV.

To withdraw ourselves from the law of the strong, we have found ourselves obliged to submit to justice. Justice or might, we must choose between these two masters.

God is not the author of all things, but of good only.

One cannot escape dogmas—those who hold most firmly to dogmas today are those whose only dogma is that dogmas should be feared like the plague.

We are continually experiencing the conditioning to hold on, tighten, or resist.