Zealand Quotes

I'd come back after having served as ambassador to New Zealand and found that I had real concerns about the direction in which this country was headed.

I moved from New Zealand to Melbourne when I was 17. I'd planned to go to university to study French, but I was offered a contract to write and record an album that was too good to pass up. Looking back now I think that was pretty young but, at the time, I was ready to have an adventure.

I see the great continuities in New Zealand history as being decency and common sense and up until now when we've confronted these things we've been able to talk them through, and I'm sure we will with this issue as well.

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.

New Zealand is not a small country but a large village.

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.

By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.

I've played such good golf, and it was hard coming up and it wasn't easy in any matches or any shots. It means a lot. I think hopefully it will mean a lot to New Zealand because I'm the next winner of the U.S. Amateur after Danny Lee.

I've never been to New Zealand before. But one of my role models, Xena, the warrior princess, comes from there.

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