'I would never be involved in an illegal activity. I believe I was related to the coup because I was criticising the Chaudry Government. When Chaudry became Prime Minister he was very unfair to my companies, infrastructure wise, and I was taking him to court and to the media. In the midst of this the coup happened. Mr Qarase, who became the Prime Minister, was previously Assistant Chairman of one of my companies where I was the Chairman. These were the reasons that have caused the rumours. Yes, I did not like the Chaudry government but no, I was not related to the coup plot.' (on rumours that he had helped to finance the coup d'etat fronted by George Speight in May 2000)

'I think that we (Indo-Fijians) have a great future in this country if we can grab the opportunities that are ahead of us.'

'Indo-Fijians have a good future in Fiji but unfortunately they are being ill-advised, their community leaders lack good leadership.'

'I went to a Harvard seminar in Sydney recently and the name of the seminar was 'Family businesses: successes and pitfalls'. The lecturer there said a typical …

'Commander Bainimarama is clean and fighting for the truth. The stand he is taking is going to save the Fijian race.' (on the opposition of Bainimarama, the Mi…

...I would now say something, which I never said before ... It is the international convention, if it is not a law, that when independence is granted to a peop…

'If the move to reconcile and compensate came from the coup perpetrators maybe, I would have given it some thought but coming from the Government is hard to ac…