We need a lot of thinking and ideas. We need all the innovators, particularly with the new sustainable technologies - how do we get them to affordability so that people can generate clean energy?

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

Senator Obama will be taking office at a critical juncture. There are many pressing challenges facing the international community, including the global financial crisis and global warming. We look forward to working closely with President-elect Obama and his team to address these challenges.

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

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.

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

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