Do away with ‘Sabah for Sabahans’ and ‘Sarawak for Sarawakians’. Everyone should think of himself as Malaysian. “We may live in Sabah or Sarawak or in the peninsula, but we are Malaysians,” Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was quoted as saying. Call that an appeal or a warning. Call
After winning GE14, the PH people were probably thinking Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad was the best person to lead the new government because he comes from the smallest party in the coalition. To guys like Lim Kit Siang, Lim Guan Eng and Klang MP Charles Santiago, who come from the
When Finance Minister Lim Guan Eng said Malaysian politics is stable because Pakatan Harapan (PH) keeps its promises, netizens got riled up. Someone called him a “One man stand-up comedy. A walking tragedy for Malaysia.” Another said, “His philosophy is to give us one joke a day.” Still another said,
My instincts are always against people who want to fasten some sort of hegemony onto things. – Clifford Geertz, American anthropologist Problems just keep coming one after another in Malaya; the PH government gets shakier and more vulnerable with each passing day. More than any other issues, the same sex
I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can’t get me away from it because I commit that thoroughly. That’s in friendship, that’s a deal, that’s a commitment. Don’t give me paper — I can get the same lawyer who drew
The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman thinks about the next generation. ― James Freeman Clarke, American theologian and author Emmm, that was quite a show from Datuk Seri Wong Soon Koh. He certainly quit his Cabinet
A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act. – Mahatma Gandhi, Indian activist It all started well for Sarawak’s dilapidated schools when newly-minted Education Minister Dr Maszlee
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule and both commonly succeed, and are right. –H.L. Mencken, American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic and scholar “If you ask about Sarawakians now, for those who are serious about
Federalism should be able to maintain unity among all. But this does not mean that we should boycott regional voices and the voices of ethnic groups. – Khil Raj Regmi, former chief justice and facto prime minister of Nepal When DAP secretary general Lim Guan Eng said Sarawak will
The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things. – Ronald Reagan, 40th US president PBB senior vice president Datuk Seri Michael Manyin is a confident man to be saying Gabungan Parti
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