NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women.

New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years.

It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity.

Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view.

The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence.

Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it.

With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated.

The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin.

By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made.

Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively.

The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region.

But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start with, she still looks alright with her head smooth.

That unthinkable, adult truth: that need is not transitive, that one may need without oneself being needed.

There is nothing good to be had in the country or if there be they will not let you have it.

...if the beginnings of love and amorous politics are equally rosy, then the ends may be equally bloody.

Alaska is so unblemished. It really gives you a good look back at what the earth looks like without a lot human beings crawling all over it.

Nature is favourable to our effort when human awareness is being established more and more in pure consciousness.

I don't like to plan anything ever because it never seems to work. I'm just really...let's just get this film out and see how this one does.

Outside advice can only tell you how a decision looks. Only you can know how it feels. The best decisions look and feel right.

She felt like someone who drowns remembering what it was like to still be on the boat, so calm and at ease, so carelessly safe

Thou shalt not kill anything less than a fifth.