Clergyman's

Will the United States pull the rug on New Zealand? The answer is no. They might polish the lino a bit harder and hope that I execute a rather unseemly glide across it.
- David Lange

Bassett was a member of parliament and a cousin on my father's side of the family. My father delivered him and it became plain in later days that he must have dropped him.
- David Lange

Lange was hosting a reception at Vogel House for the Chinese politician Hu Yao Bang when the lights went out. Lange immediately asked all the guests to raise their hands because ""many hands make light work."" The audience complied, and to their amazement the lights immediately came back on. Lange was invited to visit China.
- David Lange

...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

We are an enemy of the nuclear threat and we are an enemy of testing nuclear weapons in the South Pacific. New Zealand did not buy into this fight. France put agents into New Zealand. France put spies into New Zealand. France lets off bombs in the Pacific. France puts its President in the Pacific to crow about it.
- David Lange

On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch their breath. ""How old is this ruin?"" someone asked a guide. ""Forty-two years,"" said Lange.
- David Lange

On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch their breath. ""How old is this ruin?"" someone asked a guide. ""Forty-two years,"" said Lange.
- David Lange

On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch their breath. ""How old is this ruin?"" someone asked a guide. ""Forty-two years,"" said Lange.
- David Lange

On a trip to Germany, Lange and his entourage were climbing the tower of an ancient castle when they stopped to catch their breath. ""How old is this ruin?"" someone asked a guide. ""Forty-two years,"" said Lange.
- David Lange

And I'm going to give it to you if you hold your breath just for a moment … I can smell the uranium on it as you lean towards me.
- David Lange