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“No, your job as a leader is to inspire and to galvanize, not to share your distraught thoughts. You make your people dispirited.”
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“When you're Singapore's leader and your existence depends on performance - extraordinary performance, better than your competitors - when that performance disappears because the system on which it's been based becomes eroded, then you've lost everything... I try to tell the younger generation that and they say the old man is playing the same record, we've heard it all before. I happen to know how we got here and I know how we can unscramble it." - On one freak election result ruining Singapore”
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“If you do not know history, you think short term. If you know history, you think medium and long term”
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“Demography, not democracy, will be the most critical factor for security and growth in the 21st century”
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“Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if you take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul de sac...Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no other way you can govern a Chinese society.”
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Nahian’s 2025 Year in Books
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