I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.

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.

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

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

You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the university.

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

I can only express the hope that faith in the judicial system will never be diminished, and I am sure it will not, so long as we allow a review of the judicial processes that takes place here in some other tribunal where obviously undue influence cannot be brought to bear. As long as governments are wise enough to leave alone the rights of appeal to some superior body outside Singapore, then there must be a higher degree of confidence in the integrity of our judicial process. This is most important.