Business can talk itself into a blue funk.

I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through.

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

I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going into Parliament. I have always railed against it privately.

Fortunately New Zealand doesn't have land borders so we are able to be somewhat more rigorous on who gets in and out of our country than perhaps some people.

Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.

I'm not into power for the sake of it.