Any organisation has a future, provided it is properly led and it sticks to the objective of that organisation.

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

Malaysians, during the colonial period, were not given the top positions: we were always subordinate. Fortunately for us, the people who took over were mainly civil servants: people who were serving the Government.

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.

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.

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.

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