Judith Collins

We should only let people into New Zealand.

Do people know how you feel about the president?

I could not have done this, nor withstood the hours, the commitment, nor the lack of privacy.

We all know about that, don't we?

Without the love and support of my family, none of the last 24 years feels like most hours.

Well, time goes fast, right?

Would have been possible without the support and hard work of the many volunteers.

She also had a bit of advice.

Report the news, don't be the news.

And for the avoidance of doubt, the news should be the truth, the facts, not someone's reckons.

Everyone has an opinion.

Don't mistake it for news.

That's right.

And smoking in prisons, all these extra benefits of basically stopping prison fires.

So much safer.

But also, I mean, it was money in prisoners' families' pockets because they were paying out all this money for these guys to smoke.

Not really, because I've actually had the most interesting career for me anyway.

And I've never had portfolios that I got bored with because I normally changed every three years or so.

So actually, it's been unbelievably good.

I was thinking maybe 12 years at the start.