“Labour will try to convince you that it is sympathetic to business. Don’t believe such stories. The truth is that the party has a classic left-wing suspicion of business and the profit motive.”

—  Laisenia Qarase

Address to the annual conference of the Fiji Employers Federation, 2 September 2005

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