Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable

Innovation applied across the board of development is having a huge impact, and can have more. All sorts of technology can provide shortcuts, can overcome obstacles which once seemed insuperable.

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.

Of course I have an opinion on many things but I don't micromanage.

New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand.

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.