They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.

I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.

Greens are not expected to be anything but nice.

After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall.

Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.

An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.

Today's Schools are not Tomorrows Schools. That's a fundamental misconception.

Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.

My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.

Death is very, very terminal.

I think more than anything, that's when I decided politics was on.

We are the creation of love for the love.

Your weakness is your strength

Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

Your tail, is becoming too heavy to wag.

Racism is within each and every one of us.

Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.

I love [my father] so much with all my heart and my soul with every bone in my body I love him so much because he's done so much for me.

I think the education I've had as an actor I would never have had at university.

Regeneration is God's disposing the heart to Himself; conversion is the actual turning of the heart to God.

Regrettably, people today don't watch many programs that actually teach people how to cook, so I agreed to do a competitive show that I think will provide inspiration.