Lee Yew

Well, first you must be temperamentally suited, and there must be constant adjustment and give and take. I mean no marriages are made in heaven.

I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time questioning whether they are able to do a better job than we can.

I want a world-class opposition, not a riff-raff.

Economically, there will be a shift to the Pacific from the Atlantic Ocean and you can already see that in the shipping volumes of Chinese ports.

Look at the numbers and quality of the engineers and scientists they produce and you know that this is where the RD will be done. The Chinese have a space program, they are going to put a man on the moon and nobody sold them that technology.

I learnt how people survived and how people had to submit because you need to eat and your family need to live, so I learned the meaning of power. In a sense that power comes out in the barrel of a gun and when the Japanese gun was not as big as the American gun they surrendered and the British came back.

Few doubt the U.S. will act to remove Saddam unless he hands over weapons of mass destruction.

I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.

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.

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

I was at South Africa at the time in Johannesburg. We knew he was going in for a medical check for his Colon. They found polyps but they said it was benign but they wanted to do a biopsy.