GOH CHOK TONG

You can't run a government that is leaking all over the place.

As people grow up and they want more freedom, it's on an individual basis, children want to have more freedom, you've got to allow that, so how do you balance it. I would say let it evolve, move as quickly or slowly as people would like to move.

My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

If you allow students to do so [demonstrate], then workers will begin to do so over the slightest grievance, and if you have several such demonstrations, right away the impression is created that the government is not in control of the situation—that the place may become unstable, and that will have an impact on foreign investors.

I wanted to become a writer. I enjoyed reading as a child.

As people grow up and they want more freedom, it's on an individual basis, children want to have more freedom, you've got to allow that, so how do you balance it. I would say let it evolve, move as quickly or slowly as people would like to move.

My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore.

If you allow students to do so [demonstrate], then workers will begin to do so over the slightest grievance, and if you have several such demonstrations, right away the impression is created that the government is not in control of the situation—that the place may become unstable, and that will have an impact on foreign investors.

You can't run a government that is leaking all over the place.