The following are some memorable and not-so-memorable quotes of key Malaysian personalities over the past week.

 

quotekini inside page "Better the devil you know than the angel you don't."

Former Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said this on his Che Det blog in urging the people to support BN.

quotekini inside page "Well, people ask about the devil...we are the devil people know. They are the angels people don't know, but sometimes angels can do a lot of wrong things.

Mahathir again, when he clarified three days later that the devil referred to the ruling coalition and the angels were the opposition.

quotekini inside page "Why do you want to attack me? I don't have any more power. There seem to be a kind of hatred towards me which cannot disappear."

Another quote by Mahathir when responding to DAP national chairperson Karpal's Singh's attempt to subpoena him for the later's defence in a sedition case.

quotekini inside page "The people could have done something that would jeopardise the constitutional monarch. Before the people lose respect (to the rulers), he founded the Special Court that could hold them accountable in their personal capacity. Mahathir did not question the constitutional monarch, but he defended it."

Deputy public prosecutor Noorin Badaruddin said this when objecting to Karpal's argument that Mahathir had said more seditious things during the 1993 constitutional amendment but was left off the hook in a bid to subpoena the former premier for his defence.

quotekini inside page "He (Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng) is very arrogant, I tell you... cocky and arrogant. It is not easy. Now more arrogant."

A blog quoted Penang Deputy Chief Minister Mansor Osman as saying this based allegedly leaked minutes of a PKR meeting.

quotekini inside page "The word ‘tokong' was used in reference to the respect and esteem the people of Penang have for the chief minister."

Mansor said this when denying that he had called Lim "arrogant" or "cocky" but admitted to describing the chief minister as a tokong.

quotekini inside page "I call on the attorney-general to go ahead and charge Umno Youth and me as its chief. Even with 114A, I am confident of proving we were not responsible," said Khairy in a series of Twitter postings this evening."

Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin said this when responding to Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng's challenge for the attorney-general to use the controversial Section 114A of the Evidence Act to prosecute the political wing for a Facebook posting in its name.

quotekini inside page "I really appreciate the Home Affairs Minister (Hishammuddin Hussein), who has the ability to become a bomoh and Pak Nujum (witchdoctor and fortune teller), like a seer who can see the future."

Janji Demokrasi rally spokesperson Hishamuddin Rais said this in reaction to the Home Minister's prediction that the gathering will receive a low turnout.

quotekini inside page "I have not forgotten one politically retarded politician who tweeted rubbishing the achievement of Lee - which is rather unfortunate - and sang praises of his opponent from China. After that he apologised. I felt it was meaningless for him to apologise."

MCA president Chua Soi Lek said this in reference to DAP's Kota Alam Shah state assemblyperson M Manoharan for the latter's comment of national badmintion player Lee Chong Wei.