As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party.

You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.

I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.

We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.

So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.

Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.

So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.

It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.

Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.

I totally go against the theory that you got to win to be successful. It's how you handle your situation.

Newspapers across the country and the world have published cartoons that have gone beyond reasonable differences of opinion and expanded into the realm of antisemitism.

Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last.

Anybody who writes doesn't like to be misunderstood.

If I have any appeal at all, it's to the fellow who takes out the garbage.

The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows, it empties today of its strength.

My encounters with racism are sort of second hand situations where I might be standing around with a group of white friends and someone makes a comment that they wouldnt make at my family reunion.

I thought acting was all about natural instinct but I've realised, through working with so many talented actors on 'Wild Swans' and 'Run,' that I can see the training. That's why I am back at drama school.

Since I was little, I've had that vision of a businesswoman inside me.

If you keep on drinking rum, the world will soon be quit of a very dirty scoundrel.

I took a gamble to exercise leadership without losing my feminine nature.

If someone can watch an entire season of a TV series in one day, doesn't that show an incredible attention span?

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

Tomorrow is promised to no one. Prioritize today accordingly.

I understand that there's a certain energy in youth, no question, in terms of pursuing jobs. But there is wisdom in age. It's too bad that the two can't come together because I do think that people are dropped from what they're really good at too soon.

We will fight evil, but we will do it from above 15,000 feet.

I really wanted to find a piano for the farm house. There were so many free pianos on Craigslist, I thought, 'Let's get as many free pianos as we can and stick them all in the barn.' I got eight in a short period of time, only six of which were tunable, but it's still quite funny.

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

If a day goes by that I'm not on television, I don't look at it as a lesser day, nor do I look at changing from a news world to a sports world as any sort of step other than a step in a new direction.

In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome. The books aren't there to accuse others - merely to raise issues and keep the debates alive.

Anything I have blown a lot of money on? Well, I have three daughters and a wife - that's four women, and I'm working on a sitcom, so you could say that I am just trying to stay alive!

I don't tackle major global events. I don't like to read about something - an event, a cataclysm - in fiction for the sake of reading it.

Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature.