We also need to remember the enduring principles on which the National Party is based – individual responsibility, support for families and communities, and a belief that the State can't and shouldn't do everything.

While his removal will not necessarily bring an immediate end to terrorist activity, I have absolutely no doubt that the world is a safer place without Osama Bin Laden.

Osama Bin Laden was responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, including New Zealanders, in several different parts of the world.

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.

We should always measure a government's environmental rhetoric against its environmental record

We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.

Our opponents say more children are living in poverty than when we came into office. And that's probably right.