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.

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.

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.

Membership of an organisation is good, as long as you can make yourself heard.

You don’t have to remind a flower when its time to bloom is near

It's like there was a fellow in every man that's done a-past the sanity or the insanity, that watches the sane and the insane doings of that man with the same horror and the same astonishment.

I see Earth! It is so beautiful.

His eyes never blinked or wavered from mine, encompassing me in a field of control.

Look at Jessica Simpson. She's famous for being dumb. I guess it started with Marylyn Monroe, and she actually wasn't that dumb, but that's how she was perceived - and that's what got popular.

There are casting directors with lots of imagination, but also some with not as much imagination.

All adverse and depressing influences can be overcome, not by fighting, by by rising above them.

The way we do things is to begin.

When I putt, my emotions collide like tectonic plates. It's left my memory circuits full of scars that won't heal.

The goal of all life is death