If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.

I wouldn't call myself an atheist. I neither deny nor accept that there is a God... So I do not laugh at people who believe in God. But I do not necessarily believe in God - nor deny that there could be one.

If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.

I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been... But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.

If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.

I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us

Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead