Horses' Mouths - February 3

Hubby's support?

It was a wildly exaggerated story deliberately fabricated to affect people’s perception of their leaders.
Najib Razak, dismissing reports that his wife Rosmah Mansor spent RM325,000 on a shopping spree in Sydney recently

Rafidah to Shahrizat

If you are a problem to the party and government, please move out! The point is: damn it, decide, don't leave it (the decision to go) to the prime minister. Don't leave the onus on the prime minister to decide for you.
Rafidah Aziz, former Wanita UMNO chief, telling her successor Shahrizat Jalil to quit

White on purpose?

The article also wrote that he gave ang pow (red packets) and Mandarin oranges to the people. So there is no way he didn’t know these are Chinese customs later on Jan 29.
Collin Tiew, Sri Desa MCA branch chairperson, saying the 'white envelope' incident was a deliberate act by Perkasa chief Ibrahim Ali during the UMNO offshoot's Chinese New Year open house

Indian welfare and GLC directors

How would placing Indians in top positions alone help the community, who are mostly from the low-income group?
Dr Xavier Jeyakumar, Selangor state exco member, responding to MIC’s allegation that no Indians were appointed to top positions in the state GLCs and Kumpulan Semesta because Pakatan Rakyat had neglected the community

1Care

It’s very clear that at the end of the day it is all about outsourcing. Its outsourcing vehicle is the Social Health Insurance (SHI) scheme. I find it fantastic that they use the word ‘social’ when there is nothing social about the scheme.
Dr T Jayabalan, Citizens Healthcare Coalition, claiming the proposed healthcare reforms under the 1Care for 1Malaysia transformation plan is nothing more than a move to enrich private companies

Pig heads

ABIM pleads to Muslims in the country to stay calm and cooperate fully to counter polemic and avoid practising a ‘witch hunt’ approach. We hope Muslims will not cross the boundaries set in the teachings of Islam and to base their disapprovals on the country’s legal provisions.
Malaysian Islamic Youth Movement (ABIM), advising Muslims to stay calm and not join any “witch hunts” over a spate of pig-head incidents at mosques

Dr M to Najib

If you have the time, use the time to build up support. BN can’t afford to lose support from any sector of the country. The current thinking is that the Chinese won’t vote for the government.
Dr Mahathir Mohamad, advising prime minister Najib Razak to delay the 13th general election

Goodbye KITA

I realise not that forming Kita was a mistake. I had hoped to provide alternative ideas in politics and to bring a wider diversity of talent to the opposition’s leadership. This has not happened.
Zaid Ibrahim, KITA president, on dissolving the party