We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.

Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be.

That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time. The gullible fools!

If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better.

To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be done by not being beaten in the argument with our critics. They complain that I come down too hard on their arguments. But wrong ideas have to be challenged before they influence public opinion and make for problems. Those who try to be clever at the expense of the government should not complain if my replies are as sharp as their criticisms.

Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?

I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances.