“And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn't be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters — who your neighbor is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit ... or what language you use.
We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.”
— April 20, 1987, LKY quoted in the The Straits Times newspaper.