If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.

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.

I know the situation of the Commonwealth generally, and I know that the aim should be to make the Commonwealth much more relevant to the poorer countries.

No one should have extra influence on an organisation. We should always regard ourselves as equals in the organisation, and we should be concerned about each other's problems.

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

Developing countries like Malaysia should have a say in changing the world financial system since we have faced the problems that it has caused.

Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable inter-religious wars in Northern Ireland, between Jews and Muslims and Christians in Palestine, Hindus and Muslims in South Asia and in many other places. Attempts to bring about peace have failed again and again. Always the extremist elements invoking past injustices, imagined or real, will succeed in torpedoing the peace efforts and bringing about another bout of hostility.