The Commonwealth is a mixture of developing and developed world, in which the developed countries were very influential and their policies hold sway most of the time.

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.

As god is my witness, it was never my intent to throw out the constitution. I thought it was hanging by a thread, and I could save it... You don't save it by cutting that thread. - President Nielson

A woman who focuses on worshiping God will consider carefully how she is dressed, because her heart will dictate her wardrobe and appearance.

We are living in a popular culture where everything is overexposed.

Live and let live, be and let be, Hear and let hear, see and let see. . . . Live and let live and remember this line: 'Your bus'ness is your bus'ness and my bus'ness is mine.'

A married man turns his staffe into a stake.

I have a twenty-month-old baby, a sixteen-year-old boy - same maturity level.

A child, from the time he can think, should think about all he sees, should suffer for all who cannot live with honesty, should work so that all men can be honest, and should be honest himself.

Kid, you might just annoy me into killing you.

Brand-new research suggests that the faster you take weight off, the longer you keep it off. Now that's a reason for dieters everywhere to rejoice.

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.