Helen Clark
Helen Clark

Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

Helen Clark
Helen Clark

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
Helen Clark

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

Helen Clark
Helen Clark

We're a nation in search of an identity, but it's quite exciting. I don't regard it as a problem. It's a challenge.

Helen Clark
Helen Clark

In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things.

Helen Clark
Helen Clark

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

Helen Clark
Helen Clark

If the market is left to sort matters out, social injustice will be heightened and suffering in the community will grow with the neglect the market fosters.

Helen Clark
Helen Clark

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
Helen Clark

'Never look back' is my philosophy.

Helen Clark
Helen Clark

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

Helen Clark
Helen Clark

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
Helen Clark

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
Helen Clark

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

Helen Clark
Helen Clark

Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secure funding.

Helen Clark
Helen Clark

The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I'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
Helen Clark

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
Helen Clark

There is also a marked global trend towards sustainable agriculture, building on traditional methods which use fewer chemical inputs, carefully manage soil and water resources, and work hand-in-hand with nature.

Helen Clark
Helen Clark

Business can talk itself into a blue funk.

Helen Clark
Helen Clark

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.

Helen Clark
Helen Clark

I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through.