Quotes by John Key

About John Key:

John Phillip Key is the 38th Prime Minister of New Zealand, in office since 2008. He has led the New Zealand National Party since 2006.
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I've always been a glass-half-full as opposed to a glass-half-empty, and the day that changes is the day I should leave.

John Key

New Zealand as a whole needs to save more, spend less and reduce our reliance on foreign debt.

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I have quite a strong sense of wanting to sort of, wanting to help others. I'm not claiming I'm a saint, but I have a genuine, genuine belief in trying to help others.

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The public talk colloquially, the public's grammar's not perfect. They kid around and I don't think they overly mark me down for that. They just see me as a normal guy.

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Let's just get a deal done then let's worry about expanding it.

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I dare you to show me one example where I haven't discharged my responsibility seriously, professionally and appropriately.

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I'm often at events when they're quite light-hearted social events when people would want me to kid around.

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If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that.

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I guess I'm reasonably confident in all honesty. But I definitely don't think I'm arrogant. I'm pretty down to earth, I mean I'm genuinely down to earth.

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I think what happens when you are prime minister is no day is the same and every day you are under pressure. And there is always so much happening that the days just flash by and flash into weeks.

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The world, whether we like it or not, will become more and more borderless.

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I have more engagement with New Zealand than people might think. Unlike the impression I have of the American president, who sits in the Oval Office and people come to them.

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We are a small, open economy, highly dependent on global flows. It is inevitably a demand that dramatically alters and that is reflected in what we feel here in New Zealand. So there is at its most basic level a limit to what we can do and that is tr...

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I care about people's human rights and, as a country, we have a very proud record indeed. But I'm also realistic about what we can do... we can raise those issues with leaders and we can talk about those issues, and we do that.

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My mother had an incredibly strong accent - although I couldn't hear it - and she was the main person there, so I'll have learnt to speak English from her.

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Sure I can sit around and do absolutely nothing for the next nine years and I might survive that long but it's not going to take New Zealand anywhere.

John Key

Moral persuasion over a period of time makes a difference, but we shouldn't be naive to think that just because we raise it in a meeting it will make all those problems go away. It won't and it doesn't.

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We don't tell New Zealanders we can stop the global recession, because we can't. What we do tell them is we can use this time to transform the economy to make us stronger so that when the world starts growing again we can be running faster than other...

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From time to time I might push a little bit too hard and I have got to be a bit more careful.

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We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.

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I think for the most part people are proud of the bicultural foundation New Zealand is built on and the fact that we are a multicultural society.

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Author Bio

  • NameJohn Key
  • Description38th Prime Minister of New Zealand
  • BornAugust 9, 1961
  • CountryNew Zealand
  • ProfessionPolitician