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I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

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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Business can talk itself into a blue funk.
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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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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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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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Equity, dignity, happiness, sustainability - these are all fundamental to our lives but absent in the GDP.
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New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand.
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Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.
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I only take on roles that I'm passionate about. Life is too short to do things that you're not happy with.
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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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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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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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Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.
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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.
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I'm not into power for the sake of it.
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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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No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.
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Someone's got to break the glass ceiling, and once it's broken, everybody else comes clamouring up behind.
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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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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 deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.
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