Jacinda Ardern Quotes

New Zealand, Prime Minister
July 26, 1980

Jacinda Kate Laurell Ardern is a New Zealand politician serving, since 26 October 2017, as the 40th Prime Minister of New Zealand. She has also served as the Leader of the Labour Party since 1 August 2017. Ardern has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for the Mount Albert electorate since 8 March 2017; she was first elected to the House of Representatives as a list MP at the 2008 general election.[5]

I am not the first woman to multi-task. I am not the first woman to work and have a baby - there are many women who have done this before.

Jacinda Ardern
- Work
- Woman
- Baby
The challenging thing from a work perspective is just the range of things on any given day that you're dealing with and making sure you have the head space to really be giving them the thought and consideration you'd like, too.

Jacinda Ardern

We spent the election campaign really canvassing where we were as a nation, deciding who had the mandate to change that up going forward. But I think the challenge for us will be, as with any government, your actions demonstrate your legacy.

Jacinda Ardern
- Legacy
- Nation
- Actions
I hate the idea of anyone thinking that I don't put a lot of thought about the cost to taxpayers. I make our ministers travel to events in vans to pool together.

Jacinda Ardern
- Idea
- Cost
- Taxpayers
If we want to make workplaces more open, we need to acknowledge logistical challenges... by being more open, it might create a path for other women.

Jacinda Ardern
- Open
- Workplace
- Logistics
Everyone knows that I have just accepted, with short notice, the worst job in politics.

Jacinda Ardern
- Job
- Politics
- Accepted
We're looking to ways to build in the responsibility we have on climate change and the way that we approach, potentially, climate change refuges in the future amongst our neighbors.

Jacinda Ardern
You can't ask other people to believe you and vote for you if you don't back yourself.

Jacinda Ardern
- Yourself
- Back
- Vote

Issues like obesity do, as you well know, have a knock-on effect to diabetes. So we all are better off if we invest early in prevention.

Jacinda Ardern
The fact I'm the third female Prime Minister, I never grew up believing my gender would stand in the way of doing anything I wanted.

Jacinda Ardern
Taking on a leadership role doesn't mean that you only have to be personally ambitious.

Jacinda Ardern
Lots of people juggle a lot of things in their personal and private lives, and I'm not unusual in that. Plenty of women have multitasked before me, and I want to acknowledge that.

Jacinda Ardern
- Women
- Want
- Multitasker