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Billionaire Owen Glenn donated $500,000 to the Labour Party and $100,000 to New Zealand First but this morning Mr Glenn was scathing when asked for his opinions on some of the most powerful people in New Zealand politics, including Prime Minister Helen Clark.
On New Zealand First leader Winston Peters
"I don't think people with forgetful memories should be Minister of Foreign Affairs."
"I think people in elected positions and privileged positions need to act ethically and be trusted and I doubt he can be."
"There's the honourable way out, short of dropping on your sword, and let's see what the calibre of the man is tonight. His peers will judge him but that's already a hung jury in my mind."
"I think as the Foreign Minister he's done a good job but he shouldn't let his deputy call me a liar. He won't let that happen again."
On Prime Minister Helen Clark
"She's very self-serving. As I said, I wouldn't want them in the trenches next to me. It's not the money, it's the way you're treated and then you turn your dogs on me, toothless dogs."
On Deputy Prime Minister Michael Cullen
"He's a bully. I don't have a warm and fuzzy feeling about him. He's not the sort of guy I'd want to spend a weekend with on an island but he's just following orders."
On Labour Party president Mike Williams
"I like Mike but he's really a bag man for the Labour Party."
"I personally don't think he'll stay in his job past the end of the year."
On the media
"There's a lot of fabrication, more than two thirds of what has been written. It's all fabrication."
"You're all accountable too, you know. A lot of stuff has been written that is lies, just to sell newspapers."
- NZHERALD STAFF
