David Lange Professions : Former Prime Minister of New Zealand Born : August 4, 1942 Died : August 13, 2005 Browse All Authors Top 25 quotes by David Lange I had been brought up in the law and had this sort of instinct that international law operates and was there to protect principles and not to be the plaything of power and might - which I now know, of course, to be an absolute nonsense. International law should be spelled l-o-r-e. David Lange know nonsense power law One minute I was a clapped-out, two-guinea, legal-aid lawyer, and the next minute I was in parliament. David Lange minute parliament next lawyer George W. Bush: a person who is the ultimate outcome of the American condition. Someone promoted above ability because of circumstance and organisation and empathy. You don't have to be intelligent. A moron in a hurry could know that you don't prevent war by having a war. David Lange someone you empathy war This is the difficulty about talking about it without sounding big-headed, but you cannot speak of New Zealand now without my involvement in what it has become. David Lange new you speak talking You have to talk about why things happened the way they did. You can't actually explain my political life except by a series of situations rather than by some carefully constructed, rigidly progressed ascendancy. David Lange you political life way Similar Authors Helen Clark former-prime-minister-of-new-zealand Jim Bolger former-prime-minister-of-new-zealand Jenny Shipley former-prime-minister-of-new-zealand Robert Muldoon former-prime-minister-of-new-zealand All Authors