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It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.
I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.
Life in this world is short. Let us make use of our lives in the pursuit of happiness and not trouble.
But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
Some people think that as soon as you plant a tree, it must bear fruit. We must allow it to grow a bit.
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
For me, to say I want to go to sleep and retire and prepare for my afterlife, I think that is very selfish.
I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.
Any organisation has a future, provided it is properly led and it sticks to the objective of that organisation.
History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children, or as the lying prime minister and president.
We all abhor terrorists, but we have to treat them as dangerous to all of us, not to any one particular country.
Whenever I am asked who I admire most among the leaders I have met, I have no hesitation in naming Nelson Mandela.
Not many dictators announce their resignation, but I did because I didn't want to stay on and overstay my welcome.
When the British ruled Malaysia, they burnt millions of acres of Malaysian forests so that they could plant rubber.
The government seems to be set on bankrupting Proton and selling it off, because I think it is regarded as my baby.
We say less things about Australians than Australians say about us, calling me a dictator, authoritarian government.
If you know each other well, you want to do business with people you know well. You don't do business with strangers.
If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others.
When you have a prime minister who is corrupt, then you can be sure that a country cannot be anything else but corrupt.
If Australia wants to be a friend of Asia, it should stop behaving as if it is there to teach us how to run our country.
I assume that people react to things as I would react. For example, if you are nice to people, they should be nice to you.
We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right.
I am saying that currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive, and immoral. It should be stopped. It should be made illegal.
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.
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.
If we keep on raking up the past, you can never work with anybody. You will always be fighting against your enemies, and that is bad.
There's no point in treating a currency like a commodity, devaluing it artificially and causing a lot of poverty among poor countries.
In Asia, we live within our means. So when we are poor, we live as poor people. I think that is a lesson that Europe can learn from Asia.
We want to defend the rights of Malaysians. We don't want to sell chunks of this country to foreign companies who will develop whole towns.
I don't care how sacred is freedom, but I think the time has come for governments, at least the Malaysian government, to censor the Internet.
It would seem the people who want to preserve the Penans' way of life are condemning them to a life full of diseases and a shorter life span.
I don't care much whether people remember me or not. If people remember, well and good. If they don't remember, it's alright - I'm dead anyway.
Developing countries like Malaysia should have a say in changing the world financial system since we have faced the problems that it has caused.
We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.
We are all Malaysians. This is the bond that unites us. Let us always remember that unity is our fundamental strength as a people and as a nation.
I know I'm not popular with all the people. Remember, I am 'cruel' or a 'pharaoh.' That's all right. In politics, you get called all types of names.
If the countries of Europe and of North America can be almost uniformly prosperous, we don't see why we cannot be allowed to be a little prosperous.
The West only talks about how you can militarily defeat the terrorists, but terrorists are very difficult to defeat because they can appear anywhere.
Justice is the most important thing. In a plural society like Malaysia, you cannot have two laws - one law for the Muslim, one law for the non-Muslim.
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.
A lawyer wants to get his client off the hook. And even if he knows the client is guilty, he is going to find ways and means of getting him off the hook.
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 developing countries go to the WTO and register their protest over things, they should be heard. Their views should be considered by the rich countries.
Looking back now, I realise why, as prime minister of Malaysia, I was described as a dictator. There were many things I did which were typically dictatorial.
Jewish stinginess and financial wizardry gained them commercial control of Europe and provoked anti-Semitism, which waxed and waned in Europe throughout the ages.
Big corporations don't just belong to one person or two persons but to a whole nation. If you let big corporations fail, then a lot of people are going to suffer.
If you look at the Malaysian media, you will find that, although some are supportive of the government, many are not, and they are very critical of the government.
I achieved too little result from my principal task, the task of making my race a race that is respected, a race that is honourable, a race that is highly regarded.
When I was first named as Deputy Prime Minister, there was a feeling of shock that I should be chosen because I was labeled as being an ultra and very anti-Chinese.