“He has no close friends that I know of.”

—  Mahathir bin Mohamad

Daim Zainuddin, as quoted in <i>Malaysian Politicians Say the Darndest Things</i>, Vol I https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/9789834359607.

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