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

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.

I cannot keep quiet even when I am a lone voice.

Membership of an organisation is good, as long as you can make yourself heard.

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

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.

I thought that the United Nations is a creature of the five super-powers who were given veto powers. I don't like veto powers at all.