I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose.

I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be here today.

Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it.

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.

You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools.

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

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.