India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.

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.

We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don’t do that, the country would be in ruins.

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.

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

If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine gun unit, that's a very tricky business. We've got to know his background... I'm saying these things because they are real, and if I don't think that, and I think even if today the Prime Minister doesn't think carefully about this, we could have a tragedy.

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