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Government programmes are making a positive difference, not a negative one. We must ask the right questions and expect answers.

— Jenny Shipley

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Let this year be one where parties say what they stand for, not against. Let's get rid of the whingeing and weak criticism which occurs for the sake of it.

This is an extraordinary set of circumstances that currently prevail. I think we must wait and see what occurs.

Most New Zealanders are colourful and determined people, ambitious, forward looking, energetic and productive, caring and compassionate.

I don't think that we should try and beat history.

The way to solve it is not necessarily becoming more liberal but rather trying to find ways that both educate, treat people who are clearly ill and deny access where that's possible.

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Ill can he rule the great, that cannot reach the small.

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The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

James Madison

Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.

Leon Trotsky The Revolution Betrayed (1936)

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

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