Sometimes I manage to get conditions alleviated, often not.

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

When you teach, you learn.

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

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.

Perhaps the one comforting thought I got out of this whole disgusting affair was that over the years when the government was tapping my telephone, it must certainly have heard some home truths from me about themselves, often couched in good Anglo-Saxon terms.

This country is armed to the teeth, and none of these African states could begin to attack South Africa.