When you teach, you learn." "And I really don't go for religions of any kind. ...I reject them all....There were principles I thought were very important.

The employment laws are completely unrealistic. You cannot overcome that in only 10 years. It will take at least another generation before young people are properly qualified.

The immediate present belongs to the extremists, but the future belongs to the moderates.

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

My own electorate, which I represented for 36 years as an anti-apartheid politician, had a considerable number of Jewish voters supporting me throughout my career.

Sometimes I manage to get conditions alleviated, often not.

All these stories are grist to the mill of the government because they build up a very useful war psychosis.