I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.

No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

It is a very small minority point of view and I think, through continuing to set the tone of tolerance, acceptance, and diversity, you just have to further marginalize such people. Hopefully one day nobody will think that way.

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.