If you don’t have that Singapore core, you can top up the numbers, but you are no longer Singapore. It doesn’t feel Singapore – it isn’t Singapore – and we can issue everybody red passports, but where is the continuity? Lee Hsien Loong Read Quote
Over half a century working together on multiple issues, Singaporeans and Americans have made many enduring and close personal friendships. Lee Hsien Loong Read Quote
Singapore admires America’s dynamism, vibrancy, and capacity for self-renewal. These qualities attract the best and brightest from around the world. Lee Hsien Loong Read Quote
America excels not just through sheer individual talent but by working together with others. Lee Hsien Loong Read Quote
You need to have good people: honourable, capable, committed in politics, standing in public office. It’s not a guarantee, but it’s the ideal we have to aim for. Lee Hsien Loong Read Quote
China has been developing, growing in economic strength and its influence in the region. That will continue. Lee Hsien Loong Read Quote
Maybe Americans feel they don’t need the rest of the world anymore, and they wish it would go away. We don’t have that option. Lee Hsien Loong Read Quote
When people say they don’t want a nanny state, they are, in fact, in a conflicted state of mind. On the one hand, they want to do whatever they want and not be stopped. On the other hand, if something goes wrong, they want to be rescued. Lee Hsien Loong Read Quote
If you go overseas and meet people, you can detect a Singaporean from across the street – the way he dresses, slightly; the way he talks; the way he acts. There is a persona which is recognizable and which we are proud of. Lee Hsien Loong Read Quote
If we did not have a sense of who we were, how we got here, why we want to achieve something – which, on the face of it, on the logic of it, is probably not worth trying – and prove that logic wrong, then you wouldn’t succeed; then you would just evaporate. Lee Hsien Loong Read Quote
