Quotes by Helen Clark

About Helen Clark:

Helen Elizabeth Clark is the Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and was the 37th Prime Minister of New Zealand. As Prime Minister she served three consecutive terms from 1999 to 2008 and was the first woman elected at a general election as the Prime Minister, and was the fifth longest serving person to hold that office. She has been Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme the third-highest UN position, since 2009.
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Business can talk itself into a blue funk.

Helen Clark

Health and education are always issues.

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Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality.

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People are optimistic about the future.

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

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

Well of course New Zealand isn't anti-American.

Helen Clark

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

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'Never look back' is my philosophy.

Helen Clark

I have no beliefs of a religious kind.

Helen Clark

Of course as a small country you're not necessarily in the strongest negotiating position unless you're negotiating with other small countries.

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The Prime Minister is head of team but its not a one woman act. I've been called all those things. Intellectual, sharp-tongued, all true. But what New Zealander is like is to know that someone is in charge and in the end the buck stops with the Prime...

Helen Clark

Of course I have an opinion on many things but I don't micromanage.

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I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through.

Helen Clark

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

Helen Clark

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

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Although biodiversity loss continues globally, many countries are significantly slowing the rate of loss by shoring up protected natural areas and the services they provide, and in expanding national park systems with tighter management and more secu...

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We don't want to deal with a separatist party.

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.

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Well, we don't think for a moment that either the U.S. or Australia are out to damage the New Zealand economy, but if there were a sustained period in which they had a free-trade agreement and New Zealand didn't have that same arrangement with the St...

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Author Bio

  • NameHelen Clark
  • Description37th Prime Minister of New Zealand
  • BornFebruary 26, 1950
  • CountryNew Zealand
  • ProfessionPolitician
  • AwardsOrder Of New Zealand; Star Of The Solomon Islands; Champions Of The Earth; Doctor Of Law