I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.

I don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake.

India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.

We have over a hundred political detainees, men against whom we are unable to prove anything in a court of law. Nearly 50 of them are men who gave us a great deal of anxiety during the years of Confrontation because they were Malay extremists. Your life and this dinner would not be what it is if my colleagues and I had decided to play it according to the rules of the game.

I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose.

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.

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