One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.

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.

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.

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.

Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians?

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

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.