“You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you’ll never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again…and your asset values will be in peril, your security will be at risk and our women will become maids in other people’s countries, foreign workers.” (The Straits Times, 5 April 2007)

– Lee Kuan Yew,
Minister Mentor
(on Justifying pay hikes for Singapore ministers)