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David Lange

(1942–2005) Politician New Zealand

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David Lange was a politician from New Zealand.

Quick Facts About David Lange

Born: August 4, 1942
Died: August 13, 2005
Nationality: New Zealand
Profession: Politician
Notable works: Mass Media and Violence; a Report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence
Spouse: Naomi Lange

About David Lange

David Russell Lange was a New Zealand politician who served as the 32nd prime minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989. A member of the New Zealand Labour Party, Lange was also the minister of Education and the minister of Foreign Affairs alongside his term as prime minister. He was also the attorney-general of New Zealand from 1989 to 1990.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Right Livelihood Award Order of New Zealand New Zealand 1990 Commemoration Medal Companion of Honour

Quotes by David Lange

You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a…

About

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This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement…

About

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New Zealand's nuclear free movement is a broad-based and popular movement. Our nuclear free status is a challenge to much that is…

Accepted

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Today's Schools are not Tomorrows Schools. That's a fundamental misconception.

Fundamentals

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An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.

Politics

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Our nuclear free status means that we decline to acquiesce in the strategies of nuclear deterrence. We will not turn a blind…

Blind

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Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder…

Answers

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Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it…

Cousin

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I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to…

Absolute

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We do not wish to have nuclear weapons on New Zealand soil or in our harbors. We do not ask, we do…

American

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Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately…

Amazement

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George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted above ability because of circumstance and…

Ability

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We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done…

Circumstances

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On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch…

Ancient

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Greens are not expected to be anything but nice.

Expected

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They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert…

Baths

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My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.

Knives

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Our nuclear free status is a statement of our belief that we and our fellow human beings can build the institutions which…

Belief

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I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania…

Bahamas

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After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days…

Ashtrays

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I, as prime minister, never went to Washington. Certainly never went to a presidential ranch. I hate to say this, but I…

Along

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I think more than anything, that's when I decided politics was on.

Decided

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I'd never been a tract writer; I'd never been a philosopher; I'd never taken part in extraordinary industrial dispute activism; I'd not…

Ability

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Death is very, very terminal.

Death

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It's a funny thing when you think you're dead. You're not terrified of it anymore. There's a sort of a epiphany to…

Anymore

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