Mahathir bin Mohamad: Quotes about people

Mahathir bin Mohamad is Prime Minister of Malaysia. Explore interesting quotes on people.
Mahathir bin Mohamad: 36 quotes0 likes

“It is disgraceful that you should be used by adults for the purpose of trying to shame us … The timber industry helps hundreds of thousands of poor people in Malaysia. Are they supposed to remain poor because you want to study tropical animals? Is your study more important than filling the stomachs of poor people? Are Malaysians expected to lose millions of pounds so that you can study animals? […] I hope you will tell the adults who made use of you to learn all the facts. They should not be too arrogant and know how best to run a country…”

Mahathir bin Mohamad

Letter to Darrel Abercrombie in 1987, quoted at Free Malaysia Today http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/opinion/2013/04/19/a-tale-of-two-ms-mahathir-and-margaret/

“To be known you have to be a little bit nasty. In any case, I'm nasty only toward governments. I'm not nasty towards business people.”

Mahathir bin Mohamad

As quoted by The Financial Review, 19 November 1993.
Malaysian Politicians Say the Darndest Things [Vol I]

“We also do not call each other "Bapak This" or "Bapak That, not like in the past. We now only hear people calling "Bapak" (father) at home.”

Mahathir bin Mohamad

Malaysian Politicians Say the Darndest Things [Vol I]

“This country stands out like a sore thumb trying to impose its European values in Asia as if the good old days when people can shoot aborigines without caring about human rights.”

Mahathir bin Mohamad

on Australia and its perceived political interference in Southeast Asia.
Malaysian Politicians Say the Darndest Things [Vol I]

“"We (Muslims) are actually very strong. 1.3 billion people cannot be simply wiped out. The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them." - Oct. 16, 2003, in speech to a summit of 57 Islamic countries.”

Mahathir bin Mohamad

“We (Muslims) are actually very strong. 1.3 billion people cannot be simply wiped out. The Europeans killed 6 million Jews out of 12 million. But today the Jews rule the world by proxy. They get others to fight and die for them.”

Mahathir bin Mohamad

Oct. 16, 2003, in speech to a summit of 57 Islamic countries.