Mahathir Mohamad Quotations

It's an old-fashioned idea, but he thinks whites are superior to colored people. So since we are brown people, we must be stupid,

Most developing countries would know Malaysia quite well. Why? It is because we believe in contacts. We offer them some help for training, for example. We call it 'technical cooperation'.

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.

The UN is hardly democratic.

The Commonwealth is a mixture of developing and developed world, in which the developed countries were very influential and their policies hold sway most of the time.

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.

Currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive and totally immoral. It should be stopped.

When I became Prime Minister, I looked back on what was done before - what were the policies and actions before - and I thought that I need to be critical if I'm going to do anything at all.

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.

Developing countries like Malaysia should have a say in changing the world financial system since we have faced the problems that it has caused.