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David Lange was New Zealand politician and 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand. Explore interesting quotes on news.

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“…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

Referring to the reforms of the 1980s.
Source: New Zealand Wit & Wisdom (1998), p. 156.

People

“Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.”

David Lange

Source: Gliding on the Lino: The Wit of David Lange", compiled by David Barber, 1987.

Hope

“We are an enemy of the nuclear threat and we are an enemy of testing nuclear weapons in the South Pacific. New Zealand did not buy into this fight. France put agents into New Zealand. France put spies into New Zealand. France lets off bombs in the Pacific. France puts its President in the Pacific to crow about it.”

David Lange

Referring to the Bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.
Source: M. King, Death of the Rainbow Warrior (1986), p. 200.

Fight

“If the American global strategy is dependent on the ability of nuclear ships to come to New Zealand, then God defend the world.”

David Lange

Referring to American nuclear policy, alluding to New Zealand's national anthem, God Defend New Zealand.
Source: Heinemann Dictionary of New Zealand Quotations (1988), p. 397.

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