David Lange
David Lange
David Russell Lange ONZ CHserved as the 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989. He headed New Zealand's fourth Labour Government, one of the most reforming administrations in his country's history, but one which did not always conform to traditional expectations of a social-democrat party. He had a reputation for cutting witand eloquence. His government implemented far-reaching free-market reforms. Helen Clark described New Zealand's nuclear-free legislation as his legacy...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 August 1942
Money motivates. The goals (in the public sector) are more about service than money,
They can fish for catfish for all I care, as long as they fill up our hotels.
As a physician, it can be very frustrating to care for patients with difficult-to-control asthma, so when we have a medication available that can improve outcomes such as this, it's exciting.
They told me, 'Don't bargain with the prices,' ... They wanted the best of everything. I was surprised. I didn't know they'd have a budget like Guangzhou or Beijing.
They told me, 'Don't bargain with the prices,' ... They wanted the best of everything. I was surprised. I didn't know they'd have a budget like Guangzhou or Beijing.
We cannot by ourselves reduce the number of nuclear weapons in the world, but we are doing what has to be done all over the world if those weapons are one day to be eliminated. We will not contemplate any circumstance in which their possession or threatened use is justified. We reject the secrecy and hypocrisy which surrounds the continuing refinement of the technology.
I think more than anything, that's when I decided politics was on.
New Zealand's nuclear free movement is a broad-based and popular movement. Our nuclear free status is a challenge to much that is accepted as orthodox in international relations. It was formally adopted in the cold war era as a form of resistance to the dismal doctrines of nuclear deterrence. It is still a rebuke to the unprincipled exercise of economic power and military might.
Death is very, very terminal.
They couldn't, in the National Party, run a bath and if either the deputy leader or the leader tried to, Sir Robert would run away with the plug.
An itinerant masseur, massaging the politically erogenous zones.
After that, whenever I drove past Mangakahia, I would empty my ashtray - and I was a heavy smoker in those days - on the road outside the hall.
Greens are not expected to be anything but nice.
My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.