[2] He is married to Viv Beck, a communications executive and businesswoman who unsuccessfully contested the 2022 Auckland mayoral election.

[4] Returning to New Zealand after a year coaching rugby in the United States, Quinn set up his own consultancy firm and was a director of the Institute of Geological and Nuclear Sciences from 1992 to 1998.

[5] He was the general manager for forestry at freight movement company Tranz Link from 1993 to 1999 and held a number of directorship positions in rugby union in the 1990s and 2000s.

[11] Quinn's captaincy was criticised during the New Zealand Māori tour of Wales and Spain in 1982 by former British Lions coach Carwyn James, who said that while Quinn was "useful" as a flanker but was "inches too short and a couple of yards too slow" compared to previous back row players who had captained All Black sides.

[13] In his maiden speech, delivered on 16 December 2008, Quinn said he had no ambition to be a member of Parliament but was inspired to run because he disagreed with the policy direction of the Fifth Labour Government, which he described as "nanny state.

[4] This was a specialist committee set up to consider the replacement of the Electoral Finance Act 2007 and legislation related to the 2011 New Zealand voting system referendum.

In a legal opinion, Attorney-General Chris Finlayson held that "the objective of the Bill [was] not rationally linked to the blanket ban on prisoner voting" because it did not specifically target serious offenders.

[18] At the 2011 general election, Quinn again finished second in Hutt South and his party list ranking of 55 was too low to be re-elected.