"How could I stand by and watch my house on fire? (This quote, and the one following, were part of his defence for joi…"

"At that stage my heart ruled my head"."

"It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time."

"Here was an action that touched on raw and sensitive nerves in a community that had already undergone the trauma of t…"

"When you (President Ratu Sir Penaia Ganilau) called me at Lomaloma in December 1987 and asked me to form an Interim G…"

"(On his Catholic faith): "Certainly it has been the rock on which I have always been able to rely in good times and i…"

"From where I stand, I do not see the lost people of the South Seas, the defeated and the despairing, shrunken shadows…"

"But my friends, my brothers and sisters of the Pacific, we know who we are. We carry in our hearts the knowledge that…"

"It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesu…"

""Above all there is our fixed joint determination to build a strong and united Fiji, rich in diversity and pampered w…"