If you know each other well, you want to do business with people you know well. You don't do business with strangers.

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.

From flophouse bedTo poorhouse bread, all outhouse sorrow:I thee wed.

If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

Yesterday my daughter said to me, 'My marriage is falling apart.' And now all she can do is watch it falling.

Honesty is a big deal, and when your honest everything will fall into place.

I just feel such a connection to the little kids in Naples. I remember being on the street wanting a small piece of candy.

I have Twitter so I can tell people what I want them to buy and they give me money.

The fashion industry can in a certain way be very hard and closed.

I think, for East and West, the first thing we need is a good grounding in basic Buddhadharma.

Adventure is the life of commerce, but caution is the life of banking.