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

What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend.

If nobody is afraid of me, I'm meaningless.

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

I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.

If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline

If you are a troublemaker, it’s our job to politically destroy you. Put it this way. As long as JB Jeyaretnam stands for what he stands for – a thoroughly destructive force – we will knock him. Everybody knows that in my bag I have a hatchet, and a very sharp one. You take me on, I take my hatchet, we meet in the cul-de-sac.