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

I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom.

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

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.

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?

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.