Mahathir Mohamad Quotes:
A lawyer wants to get his client off the hook. And even if he knows the client is guilty, he is going to find ways and means of getting him off the hook.
Mahathir Mohamad
Affirmative action is not something that the World Bank believes in or promotes.
Mahathir Mohamad
All leaders must have some power. Without power, you can’t be a leader.
Mahathir Mohamad
As a doctor, you are out on call most nights, so you don’t get continuous sleep, and that becomes something that is familiar to you. So, working hard doesn’t bother me.
Mahathir Mohamad
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, you can help them even more.
Mahathir Mohamad
Big corporations don’t just belong to one person or two persons but to a whole nation. If you let big corporations fail, then a lot of people are going to suffer.
Mahathir Mohamad
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Corruption is found everywhere. I admit there is some corruption in my staff – not me.
Mahathir Mohamad
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Democracy must be internally generated. You cannot force it from the top – it’s not going to work.
Mahathir Mohamad
Doctors look after me. But, basically, I look after myself. I don’t overeat. I don’t develop a big paunch. I do a little bit of exercise. At the same time, I believe that if you don’t work, you will decay. The decay process is through not using your faculties – not using your brain, not using your body.
Mahathir Mohamad
I am glad to be labeled anti-Semitic.
Mahathir Mohamad
I am saying that currency trading is unnecessary, unproductive, and immoral. It should be stopped. It should be made illegal.
Mahathir Mohamad
I assume that people react to things as I would react. For example, if you are nice to people, they should be nice to you.
Mahathir Mohamad
I believe that currency trading should not be a business at all.
Mahathir Mohamad
I believe that every leader has a right to implement his own policy. But when I see things that are done that are not right – abuse of power, wrong approaches, wrong strategies, making use of foreign consultants, including those discarded by other countries – I feel that I have to have my say.
Mahathir Mohamad
I cannot accept this country being destroyed by selfish people who only think about themselves.
Mahathir Mohamad
I expect every prime minister to have his own imprint.
Mahathir Mohamad
I want to leave UMNO because it is no longer UMNO. It is a party dedicated to supporting Mr. Najib, to protecting Mr. Najib, to upholding whatever it is that he does, including some of the wrong things that he has done. I cannot be a member of such a party.
Mahathir Mohamad
I won’t call it UMNO anymore; this is Najib’s party. I feel embarrassed that I am associated with a party that is seen as supporting corruption – it had caused me to feel ashamed.
Mahathir Mohamad
If we keep on raking up the past, you can never work with anybody. You will always be fighting against your enemies, and that is bad.
Mahathir Mohamad
If you look at the Malaysian media, you will find that, although some are supportive of the government, many are not, and they are very critical of the government.
Mahathir Mohamad
In Asia, we live within our means. So when we are poor, we live as poor people. I think that is a lesson that Europe can learn from Asia.
Mahathir Mohamad
In Malaysia, trials have always been fair.
Mahathir Mohamad
In my years, I had the opportunity to observe peoples and countries. I see some countries doing well, others failing, and my analysis of things is that whether you fail or succeed is a function of your value system.
Mahathir Mohamad
Independence means we enjoy freedom. We are not colonised by people. And we can govern our own country and develop it independently so that our people can live a better life.
Mahathir Mohamad
It is always the right of the mighty which prevails over the weak, and that is very primitive.
Mahathir Mohamad
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