I presume the green wave will only occur in areas where the majority of the voters, 70 per cent and above, are Malays. – Dr Azmi Hassan, senior fellow of Nusantara Academy for Strategic Research Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s Pakatan Harapan (PH) couldn’t have asked for a sweeter victory: his
Selfies, they call ’em, and that makes sense ’cause even though they’re sending these pictures to others, it still smells like selfish to me. Is that why they call it an “I phone”? ‘Cause it’s all about me me me. Like talking to hear yourself talk. – David Duchovny, American
If someone doesn’t like what you bring to the table in a relationship, let them eat alone. – Karen Salmansohn, self-help book author A close friend’s marriage is going through a rough patch. Let’s call her Azadeh. Her marriage has hardly gone through six years and her man, she claims,
What is sex education? This is a typical response when I ask school administrators whether sex ed is being taught in their respective public secondary schools. I am referred to the school counsellor when I mention consent, body image, relationships, and STDs. – Anonymous I can’t help but feel emotional
I think the candidates have tried their best but as a president, I need to do better. This is a very humbling experience for us at Muda. – Syed Saddiq Abdul Rahman, Muda president In the end, the battle for the six states ended in a status quo, or a
Bureaucracies are designed to perform public business. But as soon as a bureaucracy is established, it develops an autonomous spiritual life and comes to regard the public as its enemy. – Bruce Atkinson, American theatre critic Bureaucracy is the death of any achievement, so said Albert Einstein. I couldn’t agree
Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies. – Ernest Benn, British publisher, writer and political publicist All went well with no untoward incident reported during the nomination process for elections in six states on Saturday (July 29). Nomination
Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac? – George Carlin, American stand-up comedian Most of you would have come across drivers on their mobile phones – answering calls, texting, checking their emails, looking at social
During a political campaign everyone is concerned with what a candidate will do on this or that question if he is elected except the candidate; he’s too busy wondering what he’ll do if he isn’t elected. – Everett Dirksen, American politician When Barisan Nasional (BN) chairman and United Malays National
Labour was the first price, the original purchase-money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. – Adam Smith, Scottish economist and philosopher The Malaysian Trades Union Congress (MTUC) Sarawak has once