#new zealand

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. ↗

— Helen Clark

#certainly #democracy #fair #had #lifetime

Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American. ↗

— Helen Clark

#course #new #new zealand #well #zealand

Well, there have been periods in the past when prime ministers of Australia and New Zealand were at each others' throats publicly and frequently. That's not productive at all. ↗

— Helen Clark

#been #each #frequently #in the past #ministers

Well, we don't think for a moment that either the U.S. or Australia are out to damage the New Zealand economy, but if there were a sustained period in which they had a free-trade agreement and New Zealand didn't have that same arrangement with the States, that could be both trade- and investment-distorting. ↗

— Helen Clark

#arrangement #australia #both #could #damage

God bless America. God save the Queen. God defend New Zealand and thank Christ for Australia. ↗

— Russell Crowe

#australia #bless #christ #defend #god

I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well. ↗

— Michael King

#been #being #common #common sense #confronted

When I was a child in the 1940s and early 1950s, my parents and grandparents spoke of Britain as home, and New Zealand had this strong sense of identity and coherence as being part of the commonwealth and a the identity of its people as being British. ↗

— Michael King

#britain #british #child #coherence #commonwealth

I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#after #ambassador #back #come #concerns

New Zealand, by the way, where I was ambassador, has had two women prime ministers - one from either party. ↗

— Carol Moseley Braun

#either #had #i #ministers #new

Unlike New Zealand, which has nothing especially predatory, Australia is full of spiders and crocodiles and all kinds of animals that will eat you and sting you. ↗

— Brian Cox

#crocodiles #eat #especially #full #kinds