""They can't promise anything because I've spent it all"."

""They won’t put up a statue to me. No, no, no. Nobody’s got that sense of humour"."

""I came here [Parliament] to help people, not to hurt people, and I find that it has not been possible for me this ye…"

""Arnold Nordmeyer had probably the most brilliant mind of any politician in my time but his political reputation was …"

""There was a lady walking down the pavement and as we passed she stopped and she said: 'I know you, don't I?' ... I s…"

"We are a free and independent nation but in time of trouble we stand with our mother country...New Zealand's decision…"

"Shortly after I entered Parliament, it became clear to me that I had too many friends. What I needed was some enemies…"

"New Zealand was colonised initially by those Australians who had the initiative to escape."

"He wanted to be remembered as a person who left New Zealand no worse than he found it. My own view is that he did lea…"

"He was an arrogant, pigheaded doctrinaire fool."