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.

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

As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.

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

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

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'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.