Being a medical practitioner enables me to get in touch with people, understand their problems, feel sympathetic towards them, and the natural thing is to want to help them, and if you become a politician and if you are successful,… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
I don't believe that you should punish the people of Iraq because you don't like their leader. Saddam Hussein is not being punished. He's fat, and he is eating enough food and living in palaces. But his people are punished… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
There are certain things that we can deal with by following the rules. But at times, we find the rules restrict you from doing… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
The Malays are spiritually inclined, tolerant, and easy-going. The non-Malays, and especially the Chinese, are materialistic, aggressive, and have an appetite for work. For equality to come about, it is necessary that these strikingly contrasting races adjust to each other. — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share
Any organisation has a future, provided it is properly led and it sticks to the objective of that organisation. — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
In the eyes of the world, Malaysia has become a pariah state, a state where anyone can be hauled up and questioned by the… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
I not only think but also look and study things carefully. When I travel around, I look at things carefully, make comparisons of what… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
Suppose a part of Britain or a part of America was taken away and given to the Jews as Israel. Do you think the… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
When you have a prime minister who is corrupt, then you can be sure that a country cannot be anything else but corrupt. — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
I am the first authoritarian government elected to become a dictator and then resigning as a dictator. So this is the first dictator in… — Mahathir Mohamad Copy Share Image
