Jenny Shipley quotes

Jenny Shipley is a New Zealand politician who served as the country's first female Prime Minister. She played a significant role in social welfare reforms and advancing women’s leadership in politics. She remains an influential figure in New Zealand's political history. Here are 20 of her quotes:

New Zealand's taken some very significant decisions in relation to defence in the last two years. (Jenny Shipley)
NGOs have a significant role to play, alongside governments, in improving the status of women. View quote
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Too often the desire for peace has been expressed by women while the stewardship of the mechanisms which are used to attempt to secure peace in the short and medium term are dominated by male decision-making structures and informal arrangements. This must change. View quote
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Peace is a fragile thing. It takes courage to secure it. It takes wisdom to maintain it. View quote
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The serious problems facing the world today will never be solved until women are able to use their full potential on behalf of themselves, their families, and their global and local communities, as the World Bank and others have discovered. View quote
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With the adoption of the Declaration on the Elimination of Violence against Women, the international community sent out a clear message that gender based violence will not be tolerated. View quote
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The Open Skies issue is something that's ongoing and we understand that there are issues in Australia that need to be sorted out. It's something that I think over time there's an opportunity for us and we'll work on that in a progressive way. View quote
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Hollow commitments to action in the future are insufficient. Deferring difficult issues must not be tolerated. Our children and grandchildren expect us to speak and act decisively. View quote
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By and large, women in New Zealand are fortunate compared with some other countries, including many in our own region. But there is still progress to be made. View quote
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The Platform for Action gives due emphasis to the fact that women globally have continued to have insufficient access to the resources necessary to achieve economic independence. View quote
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The Pacific had great hope that when the former President Mitered decided to halt nuclear testing, we had put behind us the issue of nuclear states testing their weapons in our Pacific region. (Jenny Shipley)
The decision by France to resume nuclear testing in the South Pacific has destroyed this hope and raised a storm of protest at home, in the South Pacific and thankfully around the world. View quote
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The world has been gradually reducing its nuclear arsenals. Testing must stop so that progress on the destruction of nuclear weapons may begin. View quote
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Diversity is not a politically correct idea. Diversity in a boardroom or in a Parliament means that you just have different minds, different life experience, different ways of thinking about patients or customers or voters so that when you bring that intellect, you look at opportunity and risk, and then you have it in much better balance. View quote
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Every second, every day, every year, we fail to address demand for reproductive health and family planning services. Lives are lost, and girls' opportunities to thrive and contribute to their country's development shrink. These are real people. View quote
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On many occasions New Zealand has spoken about the need to ensure that women's concerns are fully integrated into all aspects of the United Nations' activities and structures, not marginalised in one part of the Secretariat. View quote
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Ten years ago in Nairobi we said that the participation of women in the decision-making and appraisal processes of the United Nations was essential if the organization was to effectively serve women's interests. View quote
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It is important to remember that the Pacific Ocean covers a quarter of the world's surface and that each Pacific country has its own cultural, historical and ethnic identity. View quote
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Equality and development will not be achieved however if peace is not understood from women's' point of view. View quote
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I can't for the life of me see that by being permissive you actually assist anyone. View quote
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Jenny Shipley

Jenny Shipley - Image
Photo: New Zealand Ministry for Women, CC BY-SA 4.0
Occupation: New Zealander Statesman
Born: February 4, 1952
Quotes count: 20