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

[John Howard] led the Government. They had the numbers, and just basically automatically went along with the Americans.

There is no doubt that this government and this country are benefiting from the reforms that we brought in the 1980s, and that couldn't have been done without the co-operation of the trade union movement.

The essence of power is the knowledge that what you do is going to have an effect not just an immediate but perhaps a lifelong effect on the happiness and wellbeing of millions of people and so I think the essence of power is to be conscious of what it can mean for others.

The things which are most important don’t always scream the loudest.

I really had very little to do with Pierre Trudeau. He was off the scene very soon.

The concept there was that the small number of developed countries within the Commonwealth should provide assistance. This was not just financial but personal, providing experts and so on, to assist less developed members of the Commonwealth to get on the growing path. And that was part of what we did with South Africa.