"I emphasise again that people who participated in the 2000 uprising with criminal intent, as established by the police, will continue to be subject … - Laisenia Qarase

"The sections of the Bill dealing with amnesty were not plucked out of thin air. They have been taken from legislation adopted and successfully used elsewhere. The principles of amnesty are well known and accepted internationally. We have done the research on this." (14 June 2005).

"Labour will try to convince you that it is sympathetic to business. Don’t believe such stories. The truth is that the party has a classic left-wing suspicion of business and the profit motive".

Affirmative Action is a temporary measure to correct these imbalances (between ethnic Fijians and Indo-Fijians).