Jacinda Ardern

“I might be at the odd press conference with a little bit of spill on me because I'm not going to hide the imperfections of parenting. I don't think anyone needs that.”

“As soon as I came in as leader, we had seven weeks to an election, so we had to be entirely focused on the job we had in front of us.”

“I'll be prime minister and a mum, and Clarke will be 'first man of fishing' and stay-at-home dad. I think it's fair to say that this will be a wee one that a village will raise, but we couldn't be more excited.”

“When you're a bit of an anxious person, and you constantly worry about things, there comes a point where certain jobs are just really bad for you.”

“If you sit and wait to feel like you are the most confident person in the room, you are probably going to be left by yourself.”

“How great it would be for us all to have the pride of knowing that we as a country are one of the best countries to be a child.”

“The most difficult thing for us to do is to mitigate and offset our agricultural emissions. If we find a way to do that, then we're showing other countries how to do it, too.”

“Everything I've ever thought about doing has been, in some sense, about helping people.”

“Everyone knows that I have just accepted, with short notice, the worst job in politics.”

“Yes, we believe in globalization and trade, but we also believe in you being able to benefit from that more. For too long, we progressives have seemed like part of the system. We need to start thinking about whether or not it's delivering for us now.”

“Lots of people juggle a lot of things in their personal and private lives, and I'm not unusual in that. Plenty of women have multitasked before me, and I want to acknowledge that.”