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.

I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try.

I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world.

If you neglect those who are currently poor and stable, you may create more poor and unstable people. There has been a tremendous concentration of donor interest in countries that are seen as particularly fragile - but it becomes harder to mobilise money for sub-Saharan, plain poor countries.

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

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

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