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

I had no time for Indira Gandhi. She was too much in the Russian camp for my liking.

Do you know why I have credibility? Because I don't exude morality.

I can't speak with authority about Emeka Anyaoku. I just didn't know him that well.

I hated [Robert Mugabe]. He's one of the worst human beings I've ever met. He treated black and white with equal contempt. He was a horrible human being.

While society cannot provide employment for its members, the production/work/income nexus has to be abandoned as a justification for our present parsimony to the unemployed. An assumption cannot be used to justify making second-class citizens of those who are unfortunate enough to constitute living proof of the inaccuracy of that assumption.

One of the features of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meetings was [that] she [ Elizabeth II] would have a meeting with each of them. You'd have an allotted time.