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Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.
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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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
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.
Helen Clark
Marine protected areas, and particularly no-take zones, are very effective in allowing regeneration of fish stocks.
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
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
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
We need innovation. We need great ideas that can be simply and effectively produced all over the place.
Helen Clark
Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.
Helen Clark
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.
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
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
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
I have no beliefs of a religious kind.
Helen Clark
Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.
Helen Clark
Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.
Helen Clark
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.
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
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
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.
Helen Clark
No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.
Helen Clark