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

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.

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

We must encourage those who earn less than $200 per month and cannot afford to nurture and educate many children never to have more than two… We will regret the time lost if we do not now take the first tentative steps towards correcting a trend which can leave our society with a large number of the physically, intellectually and culturally anaemic.

What is of consequence is I did my best.

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.

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