I wish I can meet my wife in the hereafter, but I don't think I will. I just cease to exist just as she has ceased to exist.

Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards.

Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself.

I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.

My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation and emerged determined that no one–neither Japanese nor British–had the right to push and kick us around. We determined that we could govern ourselves and bring up our children in a country where we can be proud to be self-respecting people.

I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.

Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it.