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.

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.

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

Adopting and promoting sustainable production practices require concerted effort, something which in practice is too often missing or insufficient. Making this shift at the scale required demands forward-looking leadership in the public and private sectors alike.

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.