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\u201cIf you are unhappy with it, for God\u2019s sake, go make a Marmite sandwich and put an apple in a bag just like you and I had.\u201d Luxon, in response to media coverage about the school lunches programme.\u201cIf it walks like a duck, and it quacks like a duck, it\u2019s not looking good, is it?\u201d Public Service Minister Judith Collins, in response to the Independent Police Conduct Authority report into the Police handling of complaints against former Deputy Commissioner Jevon McSkimming.\u201cThey\u2019re killing our native birds and not shagging them.\u201d Matt Bailey, organiser of the North Canterbury Hunting Competition, when asked if trapping, neutering, and releasing feral cats would be better than culling them.\u201cThe next goal is to jump 2.40m as that\u2019s quite a key height, and also because it\u2019d be kind of cool to be able to jump over a ceiling.\u201d Olympic gold medallist Hamish Kerr on Paddy Gower\u2019s podcast The F#$%ing News.\u201cIf we find six of 68 Government MPs with a spine, we can stand on the right side of history.\u201d Green Party co-leader Chl\u00f6e Swarbrick speaking at Parliament in August during a debate on Palestinian Statehood, leading to her being ejected from the house.I know he\u2019s the Prime Minister, I made him the Prime Minister.\u201d Foreign Minister and New Zealand First leader Winston Peters, when questioned by reporters over why he didn\u2019t consult with Prime Minister Christopher Luxon over the sacking of former High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Phil Goff, following his comments about United States President Donald Trump.\u201cThank you so much for believing in Indigenous stories and believing they could be more than just brown people standing on a mountain playing a flute talking to ancestors.\u201d Film maker and actor Taika Waititi during his acceptance speech for receiving the Producers Guild of America Norman Lear Achievement Award.\u201cTurns out you can have it all. So long as you\u2019re prepared to be a c\u2026t to the women who birth your kids, school your offspring and wipe the arse of your elderly parents while you stand on their shoulders to earn your six-figure, taxpayer-funded pay packet.\u201d Senior Journalist Andrea Vance in a Sunday Star Times column skewering the government\u2019s abolishment of ongoing pay equity claims, which inspired Brooke Van Velden to be the first person in New Zealand\u2019s history to say c… in Parliament.Wildlife doesn\u2019t have brothers, sisters, fathers and mothers to call the police if something happens.\u201d Department of Conservation prosecutor Mike Bodie at a court hearing for a South Korean man who was caught trying to smuggle rare geckos out of New Zealand.\u201cI will not be setting a precedent that the way to get a meeting with me is to don an adult nappy and chain yourself to a door.\u201d Finance Minister Nicola Willis after a group of six priests chained themselves together outside her office, calling for sanctions on Israel.<\/p>\n