John Key Quotes
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Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.
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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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I always had a long-term view of going into politics, so I suppose I was always careful. I mean, I got offered all these rinky dink tax deals, but I always paid my taxes. I am naturally quite conservative.
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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.
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I believe the future of our country can be really great.
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New Zealand as a whole needs to save more, spend less and reduce our reliance on foreign debt.
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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 countries we compete with.
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The world, whether we like it or not, will become more and more borderless.
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There is much more good gained from having a fully functioning financial market than there ever is not having that.
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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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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 want to leave New Zealand in better shape than I found it. I know the job of prime minister is not forever and I'm going to do the best I can every day to make that difference.
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You get out of life what you put into it. I think you need a bit of luck but you also make a bit of luck. I think that if you're a pretty decent person you'll get back what you put in.
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You can't base an industry solely on one person. That's a very vulnerable business strategy.
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I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it, because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.
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I used to think... that people would think badly of me for various stuff they read. But now I accept it's just part of the deluge of stuff that comes every day.
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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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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.