Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.

Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up.

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

For the young, let me tell you the sky has turned brighter. There's a glorious rainbow that beckons those with the spirit of adventure. And there are rich findings at the end of the rainbow. To the young and to the not-so-old, I say, look at that horizon, follow that rainbow, go ride it.

Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts.

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

We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don’t do that, the country would be in ruins.