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.
If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.
The big nest was in Afghanistan, thats not quite cleared, then there are nests in the Philippines, there are nests in Indonesia, the Malaysians are clearing up their nests.
I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn’t be here today.
I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.
The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.
I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to speak my mind.
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 were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being done, then I would not have the slightest doubt that I could govern much more effectively in their interests.
If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.
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.
China can draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States can draw on a talent pool of 7 billion and recombine them in a diverse culture that enhances creativity in a way that ethnic Han nationalism cannot.
Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself.
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.
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.
Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards.
If you can’t think because you can’t chew, try a banana.
I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that shes just called up to say she was alright.
As you solve one set of problems, new ones appear. That is part of the nature of life.
Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society.