There are politicians who believe it is an achievement to hold a particular office. There are politicians who believe that it is about what she might have called the "he said, she said" BS. Jeanette Fitzsimons was clearly a politician who believed that being in office was not an achievement but presented the opportunity to achieve not on the personality but on the issues. That's why we hear so frequently in the last few days, as people up and down New Zealand have come to terms with her passing, words like "principled", "kind", "dogmatic", "humble", "achieving"—values that I think all of us should aspire to and values for which all of us can have a great admiration for Jeanette Fitzsimons.