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Fortunately New Zealand doesn't have land borders so we are able to be somewhat more rigorous on who gets in and out of our country than perhaps some people. ↗

— Helen Clark

#borders #country #fortunately #gets #land

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. ↗

— Helen Clark

#going #homes #i #know #new

I think it's inevitable that New Zealand will become a republic and that would reflect the reality that New Zealand is a totally sovereign-independent 21st century nation 12,000 miles from the United Kingdom. ↗

— Helen Clark

#become #century #i #i think #inevitable

I've been round Japan, Hong Kong, Korea, and China in the last few months and the message that I've been taking is that New Zealand is building an up market dynamic into a connected economy. And that we are not the old-fashioned, ship mutton kind of product the people associate their export in work. ↗

— Helen Clark

#been #building #china #connected #dynamic

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

— Helen Clark

#australia #between #defense #difference #end

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

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

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

— Helen Clark

#case #crank #end #in the end #itself

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

— Helen Clark

#course #new #new zealand #well #zealand