Shooting from the lip

Ardern quotes from the first two televised debates with Bill English.

Do we have a housing crisis? Because ultimately that is what this election is about.

Population growth … is not a plan for growing an economy. That’s what Bill has been relying on, us all selling houses to one another and immigration. That’s his plan around economic growth.

We are not increasing any tax on wage and salary earners – that is patently false. That is scaremongering.

We need to invest in our people. That’s exactly what our economy should be about.

I actually believe that it is possible to exist in politics without lying and by telling the truth. Yes, politicians make mistakes, but a true mark of leadership is whether you front those mistakes.

I have to say the GP announcement, around making doctor’s visits more accessible for community service card holders, when I saw the government announce it, I thought that’s a good idea.

I don’t accept that our teachers, our nurses, our police officers can’t get into their first home.

Our rivers are dying. Sixty per cent of our monitored waterways you can’t swim in any more.

We have a clean, green reputation. We have to start walking the talk, because our farmers trade on that, our country trades on it.

[Abortion] should be out of the Crimes Act. I’m very clear on that. People need to be able to make their own decision.

I want to see us dealing with [cannabis] as a health issue, rather than a justice issue. Locking someone up for smoking weed is a waste of money and doesn’t help fix an individual’s problem. Putting them into rehab does.

It’d be very clear to people that my values are very different to Donald Trump’s. I think what we all need now, particularly with North Korea, is for everyone to take a step back and be calm.

The response I would give Donald Trump [to a request for military support against North Korea] would be … [that] the UN needs to be brought in. China is a critical part in resolving the dispute we have now. Let’s resolve it before it escalates. Resolving this [housing] issue is going to take a comprehensive approach. It means stopping foreign speculators from buying existing homes, it means closing tax loopholes, it means building more houses.

People feel like they’re going backwards.

Under our policies, 70% of families end up better off.

We should aspire for New Zealanders to earn far, far more than the minimum wage.

When we axe National’s tax cuts, we’re axing a tax cut for me; we’re axing a tax cut for Bill [English].

[The] Waterview [Tunnel] is not a vision and it’s not a plan.

If you know what drives [poverty], tell me why after nine years do we still have the same figures around inequality, the same figures around child poverty. You’ve tried your ideas, they haven’t worked. I have a positive vision for all children being lifted up in New Zealand.

We can restore our rivers within a generation.

We’re asking those who use water for commercial gain to contribute between 1c and 2c per 1000 litres. We’ve said that we believe [immigration] needs to come down by at least 20,000-30,000.

Do I back myself to be leader? Do I back myself to win this election? Yes.