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'.

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.

We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.

The most likely man to go to hell is the man who has nothing to do on earth. Idle people tempt the devil to tempt them.

there isn't a slightest wound that doesn't hurt in the heart.

The threads of logic, intuition, and humanity should be beautifully interwoven through the fabric of our world.

If a man does not keep pace with his companions perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears however measured or far away.

It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.

Oftentimes the most produced and synth-tastic songs are the ones that end up sounding the best acoustic.

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants.

If they aren't going to advance God's kingdom, I don't care to help them advance their kingdom.

Once I’m done with a book, I’m done! I’m just not a sequel kind of girl. By the time I’ve finished a book I’ve read it so many times that it’s time to move on.