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. - Lee Kuan Yew

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

Let us get down to fundamentals. Is this an open, or is this a closed society? Is it a society where men can preach ideas - novel, unorthodox, heresies, to established churches and established governments - where there is a constant contest for men's hearts and minds on the basis of what is right, of what is just, of what is in the national interests, or is it a closed society where the mass media - the newspapers, the journals, publications, TV, radio - either bound by sound or by sight, or both sound and sight, men's minds are fed with a constant drone of sycophantic support for a particular orthodox political philosophy? I am talking of the principle of the open society, the open debate, ideas, not intimidation, persuasion not coercion...

We have a reputation, which I hope is somewhat deserved, that we are a kind of little Switzerland in South-East Asia.