Praise Allah, we must be thankful for the situation in our country because a transition of power in the government would normally be plagued with all sorts of problems, chaos, power struggle and so forth,

The attack on the World Trade Center on September 11; the human bomb attacks by Palestinians and the Tamil Tigers; the attacks against civilians by Israeli forces; the killings of Bosnian Muslims and others, …...

I was also following something my mother taught me. When you are enjoying a real good meal, stop when the food is still good. So, I guess it’s good for me to stop now,

some sort of transplant from another region.

I just don’t think I should be around interfering with things.

He did not raise anything about democracy or human rights in Malaysia,

We will not take any action or support this action,

For agreeing to that, I think we should take action to lift sanctions,

This meeting was really meant to keep us close together and up to date on each other’s problems and how we can resolve these problems and also to encourage cooperation in the economic field and...

must stop both the Palestinians and Israelis from mutual massacre.

This is not a matter discussed by the party. That is my prerogative. That is my responsibility and I do not need to refer to anyone,

Any slowness in the inflow of foreign funds is only temporary.

The terrorists may get away. Even if they are killed or captured, so long as there are still terrorists around, there’s no guarantee that others will not terrorize.

If we mind our own business, it will be better for everybody,

I not only think but also look and study things carefully. When I travel around, I look at things carefully, make comparisons of what I see. I don’t accept things at face value, you cannot...

exposing their evil intent when it introduced the concept of globalization and a borderless world.

By and large, I think other members of the U.S. government understand the way we deal with our problems in Malaysia.

People tend to respond more positively to the friendly approach than to confrontations. Pushed into a corner, even the weakest will fight.

Until the international community agrees on an international regime that will remove the kind of dangers we have been exposed to, we will have to continue with our controls.

There are links among Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines on this. I believe Singapore too, although I don’t have the facts,

We had a casual chat. I was so inspired that I invited him to open A Beautiful Mind. … What do I know about the arts?

ASEAN must resist and reject such attempts at coercion,

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.

It is true that somebody paid but it was not the (Malaysian) government. I understood some people paid a sum of money to lobbyists in America but I do not know who these people were,...

Human Rights and Globalisation

If that is everybody’s desire we will have to consider it,

We must continue in our effort to hunt them down. They have detonated bombs in Indonesia, and if they can do that there, they can always do the same here,

as if these are the good old days when people can shoot Aborigines without caring for human rights.

I have always opposed the idea of Australia and New Zealand being in the group simply because Australia and New Zealand are not really East nor are they Asian.

The police have been generally blamed but we will have to find out in detail …surely we cannot blame the whole police force.

Australia is basically European and it has made clear to the rest of the world that it is the deputy sheriff for America. Therefore Australia’s views would represent not the East, but the views representing...

Sudden change, even if it is for the good, is disruptive. Democracy for people who are not used to it can undermine stability, resulting in war even.

Despite the less than favourable external environment, growth is estimated at 5.0 percent for 2005,