Never look back. Move on. Aim high. Etc.

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.

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

In the end, there will always be a fundamental difference of perspective between New Zealand and Australia on defense, whoever is in government.

It's fair to say that, for much of my lifetime, New Zealand certainly was a property-owning democracy and working people, ordinary people, had assets.

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

Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.