To share responsibility with the people of the province should be, in my view, the proudest bequest of a chief to his people. - Epeli Ganilau

We need to marshal and direct our energy toward building this nation into a peaceful, prosperous and proud bequest to our children.

We pay lip service to multiracialism but we fail to put it into practice because we continue to see most things and ourselves from our own ethnic perspective. So long as the personal attitude persists, we will not see us one people of Fiji and our future will not be secure.

No nation would refuse to fight an invading army because some expert argued it would be cheaper to invest in defenses against future invasions. It is not a matter of prioritising lives now over lives tomorrow.