...it all happened so quickly you got a lot of bewilderment; you get a lot of people who are basically meat-and-three-veg quarter-acre New Zealanders who find themselves eating dim sims with chopsticks and they can't cope.

— David Lange Source: New Zealand Wit & Wisdom (1998)

Notes from Wikiquote

Referring to the reforms of the 1980s.

Source: Heinemann Dictionary of New Zealand Quotations (1988)

Source: A Dictionary of New Zealand Political Quotations (2000)

Source: Heinemann Dictionary of New Zealand Quotations (1988)

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