Mahathir Mohamad

Mahathir Mohamad
guarantee others terrorists
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.
attitude done apartheid
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.
attempts reject resist
ASEAN must resist and reject such attempts at coercion,
long
Membership of an organisation is good, as long as you can make yourself heard.
approach friendly people positively pushed respond tend weakest
People tend to respond more positively to the friendly approach than to confrontations. Pushed into a corner, even the weakest will fight.
although among believe links malaysia singapore
There are links among Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines on this. I believe Singapore too, although I don't have the facts,
acting against attack civilians considered orders whether
Whether the attackers are acting on their own or on the orders of their government; whether they are regulars or irregulars, if the attack is against civilians then they must be considered terrorists,
mistake thinking needs
We need an opposition to remind us if we are making mistakes. When you are not opposed you think everything you do is right.
notorious ifs
If you can't be famous, at least you can be notorious.
nice people polite
I'm brash and abrasive but that's because I've noticed when people are nice and polite they never get anywhere.
christian teaching islamic
I'm a fundamentalist in the true sense. That is to say, I follow the fundamentals of religion... But for over 1,400 years people have been interpreting and re-interpreting the religion to suit their own purpose! ... These [extremist and terrorist acts] are not Islamic fundamentals any more than the Christians who burned people at the stake are fundamentalist. They are actually deviating from the teachings of the religion!
christian religious real
Once started, religious strife has a tendency to go on and on - to become permanent feuds. Today we see such intractable inter-religious wars in Northern Ireland, between Jews and Muslims and Christians in Palestine, Hindus and Muslims in South Asia and in many other places. Attempts to bring about peace have failed again and again. Always the extremist elements invoking past injustices, imagined or real, will succeed in torpedoing the peace efforts and bringing about another bout of hostility.
children lying president
History should remember Blair and Bush as the killers of children or as the lying prime minister and president.
unnecessary currency should
Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.