"If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one."
Source: Interview with BBC
"If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one."
Source: Interview with BBC
"A nation is great not by its size alone. It is the will, the cohesion, the stamina, the discipline of its people, and the quality of their leaders which ensure it an honorable place in history."
"We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don't do that, the country would be in ruins."
"The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly."