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

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.

Most libels, and I have taken about 30 actions, take place at election time. It has not stuck because I am prepared to go before a court, stand in the witness box and face the most aggressive of lawyers who can cross-examine me on my personal history.

At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.

There is nothing to prevent you from pushing your propaganda, to push your programme out to the students or with the public at large…and if you can carry the ground, if you are right, you win. That’s democracy.

I have decided that we shall make and build and never give way.

Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf.