New Zealander - Politician | July 26, 1980 -
When I came into politics, I remember reading these scorecards of my performance, and I would routinely have these comments about not being assertive enough.
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I think that has to do with our perception of politics. There are nice politicians. There is something about this job that does take an extra bit of motivation to get out of bed in the morning.
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The thing that drives people more often than not is they genuinely feel that they can make a difference. So that means there are nice people in politics.
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I refuse to be held up as some kind of superwoman because, in my mind, the superwomen are the ones who do it on their own. I have my partner, who will be a stay-at-home father. I will do as much as I can, but I will have a village around me, and there's lots of people who don't have that.
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Te Aroha was something we settled on quite early. It was our way of reflecting the amount of love this baby's been shown before she even arrived.
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I thought, how do I reflect the generosity, particularly of all the iwi who gifted us names - and Te Aroha seemed to be a way.
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I hope for little girls and boys that there is a future where they can make choices about how they raise their family and what sort of career they have, which is based on what they want and what makes them happy.
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I have a collection of ukuleles. I meant to graduate to the guitar, but I never did.
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As soon as I came in as leader, we had seven weeks to an election, so we had to be entirely focused on the job we had in front of us.
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One of the things I'm so determined to preserve and restore is the fact that you can be the kid who was born in Dinsdale and find yourself working for the British government in the U.K., to being prime minister.
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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 that New Zealand has been built off immigration. I myself am a third-generation New Zealander.
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