It's irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. I've lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you're dead.

All my life... I believed in Malaysian merger and unity of the two territories. You know that we, as a people, are connected by geography, economics, by ties of kinship.

I know if I rest, I'll slide downhill fast.

Well, I think if I had married a different woman I would of had a very different life. She was my partner both emotionally and intellectually. At work and at play and she brought up the 3 children that we have, brought them up to be well behaved, modest and not over-bearing children.

Those who believe that after I have left the government as prime minister, I will go into a permanent retirement, really should have their heads examined.

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.