“The world [is] now seeing might is right.”

You can’t have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that’s very important.

We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

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.

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education

I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It’s a different driver, this is exactly what’s happening to the cabinet.

We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.

But I have always said that it’s important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it’s very important.

Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.

We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.

Things are always different from what they might be.

Is that it forces you to rethink your idea of who you are. Or how you might seem to other people.

It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear.

If I’m going to burn, it might as well be bright.

“What if I’m tired when I get home? What if I don’t fill my days with frenetic activity?” “But one day you might wish you had.”

I might not know who I was yesterday or who I’m going to be tomorrow, but I know who I am right now.

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

Poor people don’t like talking about poverty because even though they might live in the projects surrounded by other poor people and have, like, ten dollars in the bank they don’t like to think of themselves as poor.