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New Zealander - Politician Born: August 9, 1961

I have always thought, genuinely thought, that elections are like world cups. They sometimes look easier from the outside and they are very difficult when you are in the middle of them.

You World Look Sometimes

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

World Equality Live Important

If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that.

Pain Live Want Turn

The public talk colloquially, the public's grammar's not perfect. They kid around and I don't think they overly mark me down for that. They just see me as a normal guy.

Me Not Perfect Think Down

Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.

Time Problems Think Go

I guess I'm reasonably confident in all honesty. But I definitely don't think I'm arrogant. I'm pretty down to earth, I mean I'm genuinely down to earth.

Honesty Think Down Earth

The world, whether we like it or not, will become more and more borderless.

World Will More Like

New Zealand as a whole needs to save more, spend less and reduce our reliance on foreign debt.

New More Debt Zealand

I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me to kid around.

Me People Want Events

You are not going to change me and if you do, it will look like a fraud, it will be a fraud.

Change Me You Look

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Sunday night I always cook if I can - if I'm home, I always cook.

Home Night I Can Sunday

I have more engagement with New Zealand than people might think. Unlike the impression I have of the American president, who sits in the Oval Office and people come to them.

People Think New American

I used to think... that people would think badly of me for various stuff they read. But now I accept it's just part of the deluge of stuff that comes every day.

Day Me People Think

My mother had an incredibly strong accent - although I couldn't hear it - and she was the main person there, so I'll have learnt to speak English from her.

Mother Speak Strong Person

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

Good Personality You Intelligence

Investment is crucial. Because the truth is, you only get jobs and growth in the economy when people invest money, at their own risk, in setting up a business or expanding an existing business.

Truth Business Money You

You can't base an industry solely on one person. That's a very vulnerable business strategy.

Business You Person Strategy

Bronagh looks after the kids and without her the family would disintegrate... there are some things you can't discuss with anyone other than your wife. There has to be a strong bond of trust.

Family Trust You Wife

I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.

Society People Proud Think

It's possible to spend every waking hour here on the ninth floor and not get out of the office. And this isn't the real world in here. And contrary to public opinion, I'm not incredibly poll-driven. They are an ongoing indicator of how we are going, but I take the feedback I get on the street as being the most important.

World Street Opinion Important

I've always been a glass-half-full as opposed to a glass-half-empty, and the day that changes is the day I should leave.

Day Always Leave Changes

The Government has to stop borrowing as much money; if we don't, quite frankly New Zealand will be downgraded and interest rates will go up for all New Zealanders.

Money Government Stop Go

I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

Help Others Strong Help Trying

You get out of life what you put into it. I think you need a bit of luck but you also make a bit of luck. I think that if you're a pretty decent person you'll get back what you put in.

Life You Luck Think

Sure I can sit around and do absolutely nothing for the next nine years and I might survive that long but it's not going to take New Zealand anywhere.

Long New I Can Nothing

I engage with a lot of journalists, some of them have history and some of them don't, that's not my concern. My concern is to make sure I represent the views I want to represent on those shows.

History Want Some Make

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