You say your people brought the Bible over the mountains and ask what mine did. They wrote it, my dear. - Helen Suzman

I do not know why we equate—and with such examples before us—a white skin with civilisation.

[T]he prime minister has been trying to bully me for twenty-eight years and he has not succeeded yet. I am not frightened of you. I never have been and I never will be. I think nothing of you.

Mugabe has destroyed that country while South Africa has stood by and done nothing. The way Mugabe was feted at the inauguration last month was an embarrassing disgrace. But it served well to illustrate very clearly Mbeki's point of view.