If you want to be honest with yourself, you have to take criticism, even if you attract adverse comments from others. Mahathir Mohamad More Quotes by Mahathir Mohamad More Quotes From Mahathir Mohamad 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'. Mahathir Mohamad trainingbelievecountry 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. Mahathir Mohamad relevantshouldcountry 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. Mahathir Mohamad vetounited-nationsgiven 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. Mahathir Mohamad mixturescountryworld 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. Mahathir Mohamad lipspracticeattitude Actually, I invited many Commonwealth leaders to come to Malaysia. They did not accept my invitation. By that, I mean, they didn't say they didn't accept, but they just didn't come here. Mahathir Mohamad acceptingleadermean The UN is hardly democratic. Mahathir Mohamad democratic Our principle, in ASEAN in particular, generally is that we don't interfere in the internal affairs of other countries, we do not want to let them to use Malaysia as a base for struggle in other countries. We wanted to deport her ... now we are trying to find any country that can take her. Mahathir Mohamad world The assets were bought with Malaysian money, we have proof that it was Malaysian money, we will now make a claim with the American government. Mahathir Mohamad world We try to make use of their technology as much as possible. Mahathir Mohamad world This plan is a strong statement from the current government that we will track down and prosecute past offenders, while current and future offenders will be facing harsher action. Mahathir Mohamad world Already we are willing to forego tax for 10 years and maybe more than that, we can give them whatever incentive we can afford. Our main aim is to create jobs for our people. Mahathir Mohamad company-news Before we needed jobs, so people who had huge assembly lines employing manual labour, they were welcome. But now we want intellectual workers. Mahathir Mohamad company-news He has good ideas about how to help Malaysia produce goods for export to China. Mahathir Mohamad company-news Some of the money is believed to have gone to her, lots of money, we know about this, but finding the paper trail is a bit more difficult in this case because she doesn't sign any papers. Najib signs a lot of papers. Mahathir Mohamad top-news When we go to the courts, we will have clear evidence of the wrongdoing. We cannot afford to lose. Mahathir Mohamad top-news He was totally responsible for 1MDB. Nothing can be done without his signature, and we have his signature on all the deals entered into by 1MDB. Therefore, he is responsible. Mahathir Mohamad top-news We are working as hard as possible at a furious pace. We think that we already have almost a perfect case. Mahathir Mohamad top-news North Korea has a right to have some of its own interests (upheld), as much as the U.S. has its own interests to take care of in any negotiation, we shouldn't be skeptical. When you (are suspicious), then you cannot work with people. Mahathir Mohamad world Yes, we will reopen the embassy. Mahathir Mohamad world
