I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto powers at all.

If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.

We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right.

I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice.

I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.

No one should have extra influence on an organisation. We should always regard ourselves as equals in the organisation, and we should be concerned about each other's problems.

Developing countries like Malaysia should have a say in changing the world financial system since we have faced the problems that it has caused.

Some people say that we here have no freedom of religion, ... In reality, the people in that country are the ones who were forced to embrace a religion.

When I became Prime Minister, I looked back on what was done before – what were the policies and actions before – and I thought that I need to be critical if I’m going to do anything at all.

Any organisation has a future, provided it is properly led and it sticks to the objective of that organisation.

History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children, or as the lying prime minister and president.

Don't be so busy missing people who left that you miss the people that are standing right in front of you.

Christians must have the fragrance of Jesus Christ.

The third level of prayer, which is much more serious is knocking

Someone once said that love is the closest thing to magic that this world has, but magic enchants, deceives and casts a spell.

DAD (Decide-Announce-Defend) remains the order of the day, with only a few inspiring models of EDD (Engage-Deliberate-Decide) available to us to demonstrate how very different things could be.

You cannot want more for people than they want for themselves.

Fame makes you feel permanently like a girl walking past construction workers.

How about that oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico. And you know, the oil slick is going everywhere. So the next time somebody lands on the Hudson, it won't be that big a deal.

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

I'd love most of the movies I make to be four hours long.