Best quotes by John Key on New

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• ‟ We are a small, open economy, highly dependent on global flows. It is inevitably a demand that dramatically alters and that is reflected in what we feel here in New Zealand. So there is at its most basic level a limit to what we can do and that is true everywhere.

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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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• ‟ The Government has to stop borrowing as much money; if we don't, quite frankly New Zealand will be downgraded and interest rates will go up for all New Zealanders.

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• ‟ I have more engagement with New Zealand than people might think. Unlike the impression I have of the American president, who sits in the Oval Office and people come to them.

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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.

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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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• ‟ New Zealand needs to balance its environmental responsibilities with its economic opportunities, because the risk is that if you don't do that - and you want to lead the world - then you might end up getting unintended consequences.

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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.

  - John Key