Explore Quotes by Helen Clark

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.

We just sent our condolences to the President of the United States and the American people on what is a terrible, terrible tragedy.

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.

Economic growth which strips out the planet’s ecosystems is not sustainable

New Zealand's been pretty quiet on human rights issues, _x000D_ which we will be taking rather more interest in, and in _x000D_ international labor issues.

Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case.

I think the penny has dropped that the All Blacks aren't automatically just going to be the best team in the world.

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.

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.

Never look back. Move on. Aim high. Etc.

Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.

New Zealand and SA should take this dimension into account, the skills South Africans are presently contributing to New Zealand.

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.

In terms of protecting ourselves, the main issues are around how do we protect our borders [from illegal migrants and livestock and plant diseases], how do we protect our fisheries?

I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis.

I deeply detest social distinction and snobbery, and in that lies my strong aversion to titular honours.