David Lange
David Lange
David Russell Lange ONZ CHserved as the 32nd Prime Minister of New Zealand from 1984 to 1989. He headed New Zealand's fourth Labour Government, one of the most reforming administrations in his country's history, but one which did not always conform to traditional expectations of a social-democrat party. He had a reputation for cutting witand eloquence. His government implemented far-reaching free-market reforms. Helen Clark described New Zealand's nuclear-free legislation as his legacy...
NationalityNew Zealander
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth4 August 1942
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I can smell the uranium on your breath
They can fish for catfish for all I care, as long as they fill up our hotels.
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I think the political process is important and we don't shy away from that. But there needs to be a balance. In the public sector, we have promoted (the balance), but we haven't achieved it yet,
This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become.
One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament.