I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us

We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.

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

Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you add to your storage capacity. So your computer never hangs because you got enormous storage capacity.

They say people can think for themselves? Do you honestly believe that the chap who can’t pass primary six knows the consequence of his choice when he answers a question viscerally, on language, culture and religion? But we knew the consequences. We would starve, we would have race riots. We would disintegrate.

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

Having an education is one thing, being educated is another.