We are being colonised without New Zealanders having some say in the numbers of people coming in and where they are coming from. This is a deliberate policy of ethnic engineering and re-population. Winston Peters
...it all happened so quickly you got a lot of bewilderment; you get a lot of people who are basically meat-and-three-veg quarter-acre New Zealanders who find themselves eating dim sims with chopsticks and they can't cope. David Lange
New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression. Daniel Gillies
I don't know that you're ever going to persuade New Zealanders that they're not going to own their own homes and I'm not going to try. Helen Clark
I think thats what all New Zealanders who are fair-minded want - a good chance for everybody to get ahead, whether its education or housing. David Cunliffe
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