Living Former Prime Ministers
There are five living former prime ministers. The most recent prime minister to die was David Lange (1984–1989), on 13 August 2005.
| Name | Term of office | Date of birth |
|---|---|---|
| Geoffrey Palmer | 1989–1990 | (1942-04-21) April 21, 1942 (age 70) |
| Mike Moore | 1990 | (1949-01-28) January 28, 1949 (age 63) |
| Jim Bolger | 1990–1997 | (1935-05-31) May 31, 1935 (age 77) |
| Jenny Shipley | 1997–1999 | (1952-02-04) February 4, 1952 (age 60) |
| Helen Clark | 1999–2008 | (1950-02-26) February 26, 1950 (age 62) |
Read more about this topic: Prime Minister Of New Zealand
Famous quotes containing the words prime ministers, living, prime and/or ministers:
“Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life. What do you do after you are world-famous and nineteen or twenty and you have sat with prime ministers, kings and queens, the Pope? What do you do after that? Do you go back home and take a job? What do you do to keep your sanity? You come back to the real world.”
—Wilma Rudolph (1940–1994)
“I cannot express the pleasure I have in writing down my thoughts [in her journal], at the very moment—my opinion of people when I first see them, and how I alter, or how confirm myself in it—and I am much deceived in my foresight, if I shall not have very great delight in reading this living proof of my manner of passing my time, my sentiments, my thoughts of people I know, and a thousand other things in future.”
—Frances Burney (1752–1840)
“If one had to worry about one’s actions in respect of other people’s ideas, one might as well be buried alive in an antheap or married to an ambitious violinist. Whether that man is the prime minister, modifying his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois in terror lest some harmless act should be misunderstood and outrage some petty convention, that man is an inferior man and I do not want to have anything to do with him any more than I want to eat canned salmon.”
—Aleister Crowley (1875–1947)
“One of the ministers of Truro, when I asked what the fishermen did in the winter, answered that they did nothing but go a- visiting, sit about, and tell stories, though they worked hard in summer. Yet it is not a long vacation they get. I am sorry that I have not been there in winter to hear their yarns.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)