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No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality. — 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

Civilization is a perishable commodity. — Helen Clark MacInnes

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours. — Helen Clark

'Never look back' is my philosophy. — Helen Clark

One doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable. — Helen Clark MacInnes

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

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals. — Helen Clark

Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering. — Helen Clark MacInnes

The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain. — Helen Clark MacInnes

Business can talk itself into a blue funk. — 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

Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily. — Helen Clark MacInnes

And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy. — Helen Clark MacInnes

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested. — Helen Clark MacInnes

Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power. — Helen Clark MacInnes

The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must. — Helen Clark MacInnes

I have no beliefs of a religious kind. — Helen Clark

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

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case. — Helen Clark

Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind. — Helen Clark

I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with. — Helen Clark

I'm not into power for the sake of it. — Helen Clark

Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they? — Helen Clark MacInnes

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

Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP. — Helen Clark

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

Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries. — Helen Clark

Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it. — Helen Clark

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

New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand. — Helen Clark

Economic growth which strips out the planet's ecosystems is not sustainable — Helen Clark

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

If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested. — Helen Clark

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

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

We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy. — Helen Clark

Health and education are always issues. — Helen Clark

Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is - and that is, meaningless. — Helen Clark MacInnes

People are optimistic about the future. — Helen Clark

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. — 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

We don't want to deal with a separatist party. — Helen Clark

I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world, — Helen Clark

Never look back. Move on. Aim high. Etc. — Helen Clark

We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place. — Helen Clark