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“Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately asked all the guests to raise their hands because "many hands make light work." The audience complied, and to their amazement the lights immediately came back on. Lange was invited to visit China.”

David Lange

Anecdotes
Source: Dominion, 23 March 1992, p. 6.

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“…a sordid act of international state-backed terrorism.”

David Lange

Referring to the Bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.
Source: M. King, Death of the Rainbow Warrior (1986), p. 202.

“My back is so scar-tissued that you couldn't find a place to slip a knife.”

David Lange

Source: A Dictionary of New Zealand Political Quotations (2000), p. 96.