Actually, I invited many Commonwealth leaders to come to Malaysia. They did not accept my invitation. By that, I mean, they didn't say they didn't accept, but they just didn't come here.

History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children, or as the lying prime minister and president.

When you have elections in which 90% or 95% or 99% of those elected come from one party, then I think there is some fraudulent act.

The Commonwealth is a mixture of developing and developed world, in which the developed countries were very influential and their policies hold sway most of the time.

Knowledge has always been important, of course. The ancient Egyptians did not raise the stones for the pyramids relying on the incantations of their gods. The waters in the irrigation canals of the great Indus Civilisation did not flow according to the laws of ignorance. Knowledge has always been power and wealth.

Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.

If you know each other well, you want to do business with people you know well. You don't do business with strangers.