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.

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.

Denying the popular vote is un-American and anti-democratic.

I find feminism in smiles of a country girl not in Woolf’s artworks.

Being the soothsayer of the tribe is a dirty job, but someone has to do it.

Early in the spring of 1750, in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a manchild was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte.

Sometimes I have a terrible feeling that I am dying not from the virus, but from being untouchable.

When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.

I have finally realized that, you know, it's not a given that my lifespan will accommodate my writing aspirations.

My mom just told me the lines, because I didn't know how to read yet. I copied them and that's what I did.

Conservative New Testament studies could also provide an intellectually satisfying alternative to German biblical criticism and to the liberal theology that accompanied it

Shall I tell you of their plundering, their covetousness, their abandonment of the poor, their thefts, their cheating in trade?