John Key quotes

John Key is a New Zealand politician and businessman, recognized for serving as Prime Minister from 2008 to 2016. His leadership focused on economic reform, international relations, and national recovery after the global financial crisis. He is regarded as one of New Zealand's most influential modern leaders. Here are 8 of his quotes:

New Zealand as a whole needs to save more, spend less and reduce our reliance on foreign debt.

John Key

We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.

John Key

If I had terminal cancer, I had a few weeks to live, I was in tremendous amount of pain - if they just effectively wanted to turn off the switch and legalise that by legalising euthanasia, I'd want that.

John Key

I guess I'm reasonably confident in all honesty. But I definitely don't think I'm arrogant. I'm pretty down to earth, I mean I'm genuinely down to earth.

John Key

We live in a world where equality is pretty important.

John Key

I want to leave New Zealand in better shape than I found it. I know the job of prime minister is not forever and I'm going to do the best I can every day to make that difference.

John Key

Your personality as the prime minister feeds through to what you emphasise, and what you don't, how you'll handle a situation - whether you've got the combination of intelligence or instincts to adapt and to make good decisions.

John Key