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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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