The ending of colonialism does not in itself result in social and economic progress: it provides the opportunities for it. - Lee Kuan Yew

If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society... So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That's a problem.

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

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