A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.

Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards.

If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the university.

If you don’t include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society…So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That’s a problem.

If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better.