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.

I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work.

Health and education are always issues.

Innovation applied across the board of development is having a huge impact, and can have more. All sorts of technology can provide shortcuts, can overcome obstacles which once seemed insuperable.

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.

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