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

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.

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

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.

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

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.

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