"Either we maintain a posture of genuine independence, and work for the strengthening of our Movement, or we pursue the role prescribed for us by the super-powers."

"It is better that we fall back on our own resources than to place our hopes on understanding and help from the unfeeling North."

"Let us stop deluding ourselves. The North is not about to abdicate their role as the aristocrats of the world economies."

"The recession is a man-made recession, cooked up in the capitals of some powerful industrialised countries."

"The continued existence of the white regime [in South Africa] is an insult to the whole human race."

"There is no basic difference between the Nazis and the Israelis."

"The massacres at Sabra and Shatila, committed by the Phalangists, with the knowledge and blessing of the Israeli military leaders, shall be remembered in history alongside the horrors of Auschwitz, Dachau, and Belsen."

"Afghanistan, under whatever regime, is no threat to the Soviet Union. If the Soviet Union can live with the People's Republic of China as a sworn enemy, surely it can live with its Central Asian neighbours without military occupation."

"If a neighbour is strong, then the possibility of being occupied is very real. Might is right."

"The legitimacy of Democratic Kampuchea to represent Kampuchea here, and elsewhere, should not be disputed since the UN General Assembly has repeatedly, and with increasing majority, affirmed and recognised it."

"That the Kampuchean refugees are willing to join up with the Coalition Government led by Prince Norodom Sihanouk proves beyond any reasonable doubt that they do not want the Heng Samrin regime or his Vietnamese backers."

"The Vietnamese forces in irresistible strength marched into Kampuchea and installed a puppet regime. And having done so, the Vietnamese army stayed on to prop up that regime."

"We must condemn aggressors for their misdeeds, and do all within our means to undo the damage. While violence is not a part of our creed, there are other weapons that will serve us just as well."

"Without the Non-Aligned Movement, more of us will be fighting each other as pawns or proxies of the committed powers."

"We say that we are progressing with “deliberate speed”. We want to build a structure, brick by brick, so that the final edifice will stand the test of time."

"Clearly then interdependence means interdependence. It does not mean dependence of the weak on the strong."

"Protectionism is, needless to say, contrary to free trade."

"The market that we form, and potentially it is a rich market, is not there simply for you to exploit. But you may share that market if you are willing to share what you have in abundance i.e. technological know-how, capital, management and marketing skills."

"We have stopped believing in altruism long ago."

"We most certainly do not want to perpetuate our manufacturing sectors at the lower ranges of the scale of world technology."

"We most certainly do not cherish the dubious honour that ASEAN holds as a world leader in the production of various raw commodities whose prices are often dictated by the tender mercies of market manipulators and close-shop trading systems in Europe and other parts of the world."

"We most certainly do not want to continue to be the plantations and mines for Europe or the rest of the world."

"Joint-venture enterprises on an international scale can pave the way not only for the transfer of needed technology for the industrialisation of developing countries, but more significantly they can ensure market outlets for products manufactured in developing countries."

"One important factor for effective transfer of technology is the employment and training of local staff at all levels. It would be to the advantage of the corporation that the staff consider themselves as an integral and vital part of this operation."

"Technology is not an end in itself. It is a means to an end. And that end is the achievement of economic goals which in turn are to serve social and political purposes."

"Inequitable technology is a barrier to common progress. While the developing countries are at the early stages of applying known technologies, the advanced countries are progressing by leaps and bounds into higher technology and robotics."

"Free trade was expounded by Western economists as the most ideal form of trade until of course the developing countries learnt to export and enter western markets. Now protectionism is the acknowledged method of the developed countries which have also banded together in powerful economic groupings."

"Technological imbalance among nations, in particular between the developed and the developing countries is growing at an even greater pace with the rapid scientific and technological progress of the developed nations. This phenomenon is placing a greater strain on the already inequitable situation existing in the world economic and financial systems."

"What we are after is not dissimilar from the uchiwa (all in the family) economic system of the Japanese."

"Our "Look East" policy, in essence, is a call to return to the self-help philosophy of our earlier era: it re-emphasises the need to pull ourselves up by our own hardwork, determination and initiative."

"Foreign investment must be accompanied by a decent dose of technology transfer, without which the broad policy objective of foreign investments will not be meaningful."

"We do not intend to be the robots for foreign industry."

"Together we would be laying the foundation for an enduring and meaningful relationship between our two countries and peoples."

"What I have been exhorting is for Malaysians to emulate the Japanese in their work ethics and attitudes and their management system which, I think, is the main factor in Japan's rapid development and industrialisation."

"That is why I have asked Malaysians to 'Look East' and to learn from Japan."

"Malaysia which is the leading producer of a number of important raw materials such as rubber, tin, palm oil and tropical timber, is hard hit as a result of greatly reduced export earnings."

"The Government may not accept all that you recommend, but we will not ignore your findings or your recommendations."

"There is a lot wanting in the way policies are implemented, and economic administration is carried out."

"The NEP is one of the most liberal policies. Those who have decided to live with it have done extremely well."

"There are things that we can change. There are others that we cannot change. Is it worthwhile to knock our heads against stone walls or should we use the prepared passage or the soft spots which will let us through."

"High interest rates in a nation which lives on credit mean lowered consumption, lowered inventories and lowered investments."

"The world is going through a very difficult period. The whole banking system is now being questioned and with it the financing of international trade and investments."

"We are constantly reexamining ourselves. An Economic Panel was set up recently for this purpose."

"Malaysia is a free enterprise nation but its economy is subject to a variety of regulations as are all free enterprise economies."