Able Quote by Michael King

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

— David Lange

So I think that we're in a very heightened and somewhat unusual period of politics and polling around the countries that New Zealanders take…

— Jim Bolger

An interesting thing about New Zealand, you know, literature is that it really didn't begin in any real sense until the 20th century.

— Eleanor Catton

There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to…

— Peter Jackson

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…

— Helen Clark

New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive…

— Daniel Gillies

I've had a quiet fascination with New Zealand for most of my life.

— Richard Dean Anderson

I support a constitutional conversation, as the Labour Party does, which will allow New Zealanders to evolve a more mature and stable constitutional form,…

— David Cunliffe

We will work hard to ensure New Zealand is once again a world leader, a country we can all be proud of. We said…

— Jacinda Ardern

We are being colonised without New Zealanders having some say in the numbers of people coming in and where they are coming from. This…

— Winston Peters

We've had a debate about immigration in New Zealand for some time. Now what we're trying to champion in that conversation is a recognition…

— Jacinda Ardern

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