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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

Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks. ↗

— Helen Clark

#areas #effective #fish #marine #particularly

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it. ↗

— Henry Fielding

#fruit #money #often #root

The only language men ever speak perfectly is the one they learn in babyhood, when no one can teach them anything! ↗

— Maria Montessori

#ever #language #learn #men #only

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in international labor issues. ↗

— Helen Clark

#human #human rights #interest #international #issues

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

— Helen Clark

#country #course #necessarily #negotiating #other

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

— Helen Clark

#i #many #opinion #things

People are optimistic about the future. ↗

— Helen Clark

#future #optimistic #people

You have the highest of human trusts committed to your care. Providence has showered on this favored land blessings without number, and has chosen you as the guardians of freedom, to preserve it for the benefit of the human race. ↗

— J. Reuben Clark

#blessings #care #chosen #committed #favored

The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act.aI've been called all those things. Intellectual, sharp-tongued, all true. But what New Zealander is like is to know that someone is in charge and in the end the buck stops with the Prime Minister. ↗

— Helen Clark

#ai #been #buck #called #charge