Helen Clark
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Biography
Helen Elizabeth Clark is a New Zealand politician who served as the 37th prime minister of New Zealand from 1999 to 2008 and was the administrator of the United Nations Development Programme from 2009 to 2017. She was New Zealand's fifth-longest-serving prime minister, and the second woman to hold that office.
"Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals."
"If ordinary means I have suddenly got to produce a household of kids and iron Peter's shirts, I'm sorry, I'm not interested."
"Health and education are always issues."
"Any serious shift towards more sustainable societies has to include gender equality."
"Health and education are always issues."
"In terms of having views and being prepared to express them, yes, I think New Zealand's had a leadership role in a lot of things."
"Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case."
"I think the issue of North Korea is one where the international community as a whole has to work to resolve the crisis."