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

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.

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.

I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.

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

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

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.