During elections:
“I would want to form an alternative policies group in Parliament, comprising 20 PAP MPs. These 20 PAP MPs will be free to vote in accordance with what they think of a particular policy. In other words, the whip for them will be lifted. This is not playing politics, this is something which I think is worthwhile doing.”
– PM Goh Chok Tong, Straits Times, Nov 3, 2001
After elections:
“If you sing Jailhouse Rock with your electric guitar when others are playing Beethoven, you are out of order. The whip must be used on you.”
– PM Goh Chok Tong in report “Not in people’s interest to lift whip”, Straits Times, Apr 6, 2002