We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right.

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

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.

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

When I became Prime Minister, I looked back on what was done before – what were the policies and actions before – and I thought that I need to be critical if I’m going to do anything at all.

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.

Some people say that we here have no freedom of religion, ... In reality, the people in that country are the ones who were forced to embrace a religion.