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

Helen Clark

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Helen Clark
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: February 26
Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Political Scientist
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University Teacher
Helen Elizabeth Clark
The Right Honourable Helen Elizabeth Clark
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Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.
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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.
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Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks.
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We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.
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When women are able to live in a safe and secure environment, they can participate effectively in the economy and society. This helps overcome poverty, reduces inequalities and is beneficial for children's nutrition, health and school attendance. Every woman and girl has the right to live in safety in her home and community.
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Business can talk itself into a blue funk.
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Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.
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No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.
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I'm not into power for the sake of it.
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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.
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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.
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As New Zealanders, we've been in on the United Nations from the very beginning, played a role in the drafting of the charter - it means a lot to us that those processes are followed.
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Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.
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Senator Obama will be taking office at a critical juncture. There are many pressing challenges facing the international community, including the global financial crisis and global warming. We look forward to working closely with President-elect Obama and his team to address these challenges.
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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.
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Afghanistan is one of the poorest countries on earth. Security issue or no security issue, there would need to be a focus on it.
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Grounded in international human rights, gender equality doesn’t just improve the lives of individual women, girls, and their families it makes economic sense, strengthens democracy, and enables long-term sustainable progress.
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I felt really compromised. I think legal marriage is unnecessary and I would not have formalised the relationship [with husband Peter Davis] except for going into Parliament. I have always railed against it privately.
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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.
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Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.
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