"The best thing we can do in our career is be ourselves . . . I could be an out, gay woman. I realised that helps everyone around me feel comfortable being themselves, too."
"I took school pretty seriously. How my classmates might treat sports on the rugby field, I treated academics that way."
"The Tauranga mayoralty was the first thing in my life I haven’t finished."
"You can let a job go to your head and think that you're important when, really, it's the job that's important."