[...] If you are completely dependent on social welfare then I don’t think it is unreasonable to consider yourself to be living in poverty. That will never change while you are welfare dependent and increasing weekly payments to beneficiaries will lift nobody out of poverty.

[...] A controversial, alpha personality like Hannah Tamaki would’ve actually been a ratings draw-card.

[...] I don't blame you for following the lead of National's leadership and the insinuations of the Media Party. But it is actually all a trap, one Paula Bennett clearly hasn't seen, but a trap nonetheless.

[...] When even left-leaning academics like feminist social critic Professor Camille Paglia are shaking their heads that “universities are an absolute wreck”, the jig is up. When professors are recorded screaming and threatening mob violence at journalists, academics rebel en masse at the very idea of teaching a course on Western civilisation, and peer-reviewed papers by professors are banished from the academic record under threats of violence, the threadbare veil of “academic freedom” is torn asunder.

[...] And what would these midwives of a better tomorrow not hazard for its safe delivery? What rights would they not curtail? What dissenting minds would they not subdue? What protesting tongues would they not cut out? What unconvinced hearts would they not stop forever? To force open the Gates of Paradise?