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Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.
Helen Clark
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Helen Clark
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: February 26
Former Prime Minister Of New Zealand
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Helen Elizabeth Clark
The Right Honourable Helen Elizabeth Clark
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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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Innovation applied across the board of development is having a huge impact, and can have more. All sorts of technology can provide shortcuts, can overcome obstacles which once seemed insuperable.
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Business can talk itself into a blue funk.
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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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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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Adopting and promoting sustainable production practices require concerted effort, something which in practice is too often missing or insufficient. Making this shift at the scale required demands forward-looking leadership in the public and private sectors alike.
Helen Clark
Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.
Helen Clark
It is a very small minority point of view and I think, through continuing to set the tone of tolerance, acceptance, and diversity, you just have to further marginalize such people. Hopefully one day nobody will think that way.
Helen Clark
Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.
Helen Clark
No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.
Helen Clark
I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.
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
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.
Helen Clark
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.
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
I'm not into power for the sake of it.
Helen Clark
I have no beliefs of a religious kind.
Helen Clark
We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.
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
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
