Greens are not expected to be anything but nice.

I've got two shirts still missing from the Bahamas. I'm sure they are part of a youth camping programme somewhere in Tanzania by now.

After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall.

Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.

An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.

Today's Schools are not Tomorrows Schools. That's a fundamental misconception.

Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.

My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.

They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.

Death is very, very terminal.

I think more than anything, that's when I decided politics was on.

Lets make a change today while everybody takes a day off and waits to make a change tomorrow.

We cannot learn real patience and tolerance from a guru or a friend. They can be practiced only when we come in contact with someone who creates unpleasant experiences.

Religion equals logic... but the logic of the human mind can't perceptible it

A friend is a person with whom I may be sincere. Before him I may think aloud.

Employee fathers need to step up to the plate and put their family needs on the table.

The United Nations continues to sense as the forum where nations whose interests clash may lay their cases before world opinion.

The secret of following God's will, I discovered, usually is wrapped up in rejecting the good for God's best.

If you want people to know what your message is, just sing it.

One thing has always been true: That book or that person who can give me an idea or a new slant on an old idea is my friend.

I used to be a video game freak, but I've kind of like eased back.