I used to be a fan of proportional representation, but I am not at all now I have seen it in action.

It is the answers, not the questions, that are embarrassing.

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.

It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa – it is your answers.

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

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.

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