Mahathir Mohamad Quotes
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'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.
Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.
If you know each other well, you want to do business with people you know well. You don't do business with strangers.
When you have elections in which 90% or 95% or 99% of those elected come from one party, then I think there is some fraudulent act.
Most developing countries would know Malaysia quite well. Why? It is because we believe in contacts. We offer them some help for training, for example. We call it 'technical cooperation'.
I know the situation of the Commonwealth generally, and I know that the aim should be to make the Commonwealth much more relevant to the poorer countries.
Actually, I invited many Commonwealth leaders to come to Malaysia. They did not accept my invitation. By that, I mean, they didn't say they didn't accept, but they just didn't come here.
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.
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.
