I don't know who described Mahathir [bin Mohamad] as a pillar of the Commonwealth, but they don't know what they're talking about.

I find a fence a very uncomfortable place to squat my bottom.

I went along with it, and wanted to appoint a significant figure in Malcolm Fraser. I didn't have high hopes that they'd be able to do anything, but something was worth a try.

As far as we're concerned, there was no sporting organisation [that] should have anything to do with the sport in South Africa.

I believe [ Rajiv Gandhi] had a real sense that he would be assassinated.

In sum, the truth is that we luxuriate in the comfortable assertion that women enjoy equality. We have salved our consciences by eliminating the more obvious discriminations like unequal rates of pay for work of equal value. But, in fact, we have not eliminated the inheritance of the millennia that women are lesser beings, an inheritance which still manifests itself in a whole range of prejudice and other forms of discrimination.

We had a very good relationship. Very good. I liked [Sonny Ramphal]. I thought he was a genuine man.