“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]

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