Whenever I am asked who I admire most among the leaders I have met, I have no hesitation in naming Nelson Mandela.
I achieved too little result from my principal task, the task of making my race a race that is respected, a race that is honourable, a race that is highly regarded.
The West is very impatient. You want overnight change.
I expect every prime minister to have his own imprint.
The Jews are not merely hook-nosed but understand money instinctively.
I'm basically a creature of habit - I do practically the same thing every week, every day of every week: I go to the office, I meet people, I write, I read, and, of course, I give lectures.
The Internet has played a major role in undermining public morality.
In Malaysia, trials have always been fair.
Justice is the most important thing. In a plural society like Malaysia, you cannot have two laws - one law for the Muslim, one law for the non-Muslim.
The Internet is undermining moral values.
Being a medical practitioner enables me to get in touch with people, understand their problems, feel sympathetic towards them, and the natural thing is to want to help them, and if you become a politician and if you are successful, you can help them even more.
If the countries of Europe and of North America can be almost uniformly prosperous, we don't see why we cannot be allowed to be a little prosperous.
There are certain things that we can deal with by following the rules. But at times, we find the rules restrict you from doing the right things. On such occasions, we have to rethink - either you change the rules or break the rules.
It is always the right of the mighty which prevails over the weak, and that is very primitive.
When you have a prime minister who is corrupt, then you can be sure that a country cannot be anything else but corrupt.
I want to leave UMNO because it is no longer UMNO. It is a party dedicated to supporting Mr. Najib, to protecting Mr. Najib, to upholding whatever it is that he does, including some of the wrong things that he has done. I cannot be a member of such a party.
Suppose a part of Britain or a part of America was taken away and given to the Jews as Israel. Do you think the Americans are going to sit quietly and say 'Welcome,' and all that? They won't.
I've had quite a long time in government, and I've learned a few things.
When the people perceive that the print media is reporting what they believe is correct, then they tend to read the print media and to follow news on the television.
When the people believe that the print media and the government-controlled TV are not really reporting what is happening, then people turn away from them, and their next resort is, of course, to access the Internet and what they can get on the Internet.
