When you teach, you learn.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.