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

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.

The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive and have an appetite for work. For equality to come about, it is necessary that these strikingly contrasting races adjust to each other.

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.

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

The UN is hardly democratic.

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.