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

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

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.

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

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

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.

Even in South Africa, the Commonwealth were not doing anything, and their attitude was to tolerate apartheid in South Africa. There was a lot of lip service being paid to the need to stop this practice, but nothing was done.