Any time, every time, you can damn the Prime Minister and so long as it is not a lie and a criminal lie, nothing happens to you. You can say a lot of things. You can write books about him, damning him. So long as it is not a libel, go ahead.

Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists.

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.

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

You’re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. They’ve got democracy, according to Freedom House. But have you got a civilised life to lead? People want economic development first and foremost. The leaders may talk something else. You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools.

If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.

India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.