"I do not want to form a government that is made up of only one race," Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi said of the indications that the Chinese and Indian parties in the Barisan Nasional coalition could be hit on Saturday.
"Once you lodge a formal report with ACA, you cannot bring up the issue again. You cannot talk about the issue anymore after you made a formal report.... I can't even raise it in parliament, I can't raise it in DUN, I can't raise it outside.... Just like what happened to See Chee How of PKR. They go and lodge a police report and with ACA, they go and get themselves sued by the Chief Minister, and now you cannot talk about the Japan Times logging issue anymore. " - Chong Chieng Jen commenting on the flaws of ACA.
"No, we are not buying all these election gimmicks this time. Do you think we Indians are stupid? Hindraf - the Hindu Rights Action Force - has opened the eyes of the community to several government policies that it claims discriminate against Indians."said resident Rajagopal Muniandy, 43, a businessman from Buntong in Ipoh. Indians make up 46 per cent of its 23,000 voters.
"Why the discrimination? I just want to earn a decent living.A Malay had no problems securing a licence although the application was only made three months ago", said Mr Anthonysamy when his numerous license application to operate a sundry shop for years but had always been rejected.
"After 50 years, finally we have a leader from our own community. Malays better vote for Sayuti or the seat may go back to the MIC,” said an Umno leader, portraying that communal politics and a candidate’s race are pertinent factors in every election whether one cares to admit it or not.
"You know Indians are very political. Tunku Abdul Rahman used to say if there is one Indian, there is one political party. If there are two Indians, there are two political parties." - Tun Mahathir.
"These elections are not about trusting Anwar cos the Opposition is not strong enough to win anyway. These elections are about waking up Pak Lah when BN loses 50 seats. Pak Lah can't be trusted cos he has already broken his promises to fight crime, corruption and racism." - Tian Chua.
"Such a plot to undermine the vote is unlikely to come from the opposition because it will only be to their disadvantage." says Professor Shamsul Amri Baharuddin, who teaches sociology at the National University of Malaysia, was commenting on the withdrawal of the use of indelible ink by EC.
"People have been saying, 'Anwar, boycott the elections. They promised indelible ink and they cancelled at the last moment, it's shameful'. India with its one billion people can conduct free and fair elections with indelible ink and nobody was hurt. Indonesia used indelible ink. Turkey had elections with indelible ink. But not in our case." - Anwar Ibrahim
"Malaysia saying with 10,820 people over 100 years old, it has the highest number of old people in the world while there were 65,535 cases of “overcrowded addresses.” - Anwar Ibrahim
“EC is colluding with BN to allow cheating in the coming general elections. Despite all assurances and false gestures, it is now clear the (EC chairperson) Abdul Rashid (Abdul Rahman) is content to conduct the 12th general election in an atmosphere completely bereft of integrity” - Dr Syed Husin Ali in his statement made following Election Commission's decision not to use indelible ink for this coming polls.
“The EC has also destroyed its credibility, integrity and independence by cancelling the use at the last minute when it had earlier touted the use of indelible ink as a sign of its commitment towards ensuring free, fair, clean elections,” - Lim Kit Siang's reaction.
"They misled all Malaysians, not only yourselves, the voters of Malaysia and us, that they would implement the (use of) indelible ink - they also issued numerous statements about how much indelible ink would cost and they said they would buy it." - R Sivarasa, the candidate for Selangor's Subang made his statement known.
"I am very disappointed with the report which spins (this) so negatively... ‘Penang bribes Motorola’. It is most regrettable, most regrettable" Tsu Koon comments in a press conference on why the government is spending RM1billion tax payer's money in exchange for the multinational to stay put in Penang and pump in an additional investment of RM350 million over the next five years.
"The Selangor government has increased the price of water by 15% and it is expected to go up even further to 37% by January 2009." - Charles Santiago further added that it was BN's policy to privatise water.
"I'm surprised that MCA are absent today." - Tsu Koon commented after launching of Penang-level BN-Gerakan's manifesto in the presence of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
"I think if you follow them, it will be disastrous for the party." - Tun Dr Mahathir's response when asked about the possibility of Hishammuddin or Khairy to play a bigger role in Umno after the elections.
"I thought the NEP has already ended." Chew Mei Fun replied in a Q&A with Malaysiakini.
“If there is NO sufficient Chinese representation in the Barisan Nasional, it is not a good thing, the Chinese community cannot afford another May 13 incident.” Chew Mei Fun made a implicit warning to her Chinese voters.
"Come to Sentul and stand next to me for a debate. Face the voters and explain your manifesto for Batu. Debating is the job of Members of Parliament (MPs). If you dare not face me, how are you going to face Lim Kit Siang (incumbent Ipoh Timor MP) and Fong Po Kuan (imcumbent Batu Gajah MP),” Tian Chua said in his ceramah while referring to Si Pin, attended by about 300 people in Sentul.
"Debate is a waste of time and energy." - Lim Si Pin (son of Lim Keng Yaik) , Gerakan candidate for Batu Parlimentary Seat commented on the challenged by the opposition candidate to a public debate.
"If you vote me in, judge me not whether I can service your drains and have more tarred roads, but judge me whether I can defend the rights of Malaysian. If I don't, please kick me out." - Tony Pua, DAP candidate for PJ Utara Parlimentary Seat spoke at SS2 Ceramah recently.
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