I don't care much whether people remember me or not. If people remember, well and good. If they don't remember, it's alright - I'm dead anyway.

If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.

I believe that every leader has a right to implement his own policy. But when I see things that are done that are not right - abuse of power, wrong approaches, wrong strategies, making use of foreign consultants, including those discarded by other countries - I feel that I have to have my say.

In my years, I had the opportunity to observe peoples and countries. I see some countries doing well, others failing, and my analysis of things is that whether you fail or succeed is a function of your value system.

If we keep on raking up the past, you can never work with anybody. You will always be fighting against your enemies, and that is bad.

Justice is the most important thing. In a plural society like Malaysia, you cannot have two laws - one law for the Muslim, one law for the non-Muslim.

Independence means we enjoy freedom. We are not colonised by people. And we can govern our own country and develop it independently so that our people can live a better life.

There's no point in treating a currency like a commodity, devaluing it artificially and causing a lot of poverty among poor countries.

The little Napoleons in UMNO try to keep out people who are more intelligent than themselves.