Politician

I hope to encourage younger Singaporeans not to be so fearful.

I'm not sponsored by anybody but myself... I'm not sponsored by the PAP.

We are not starting a revolution. We are starting an evolution of change.

The President must be above politics. He must not be a proxy to any political party. His interest must be national, not with a political agenda in mind.

I think the president must be very watchful of what is happening. The president cannot deal with the bread and butter issues of Parliament, but he cannot be a sleeping president.

If the PAP has a two-third majority, they will have the power to change important laws like the Constitution at will, whenever they wish.

I think those who have followed my political life would have known that I don't believe in just blind loyalty.

We should not live in fear, we should all enjoy being able to express our views freely and openly, challenge each other on issues.

The role of the president is to take care of your money, and that's what I intend to do.

If I convince myself that I'm going contest in West Coast, I will go. It doesn't matter who else comes because that's your belief.

When you face the shareholders, then you can feel the heat is on you. For 20 years I got to answer to my shareholders. It's not easy.

I think you can fool people once but you can't fool the people all the time.

You ask yourself what is it you want? You want results or to show you are such a great fighter? For me I would rather make sure I get good results.

I want to relax for a while, maybe go back to my medical practice. I got a lot of old patients waiting for me.

I believe the processes of good governance have gone astray. Specifically there is an erosion of transparency, independence and accountability.

To be a unifying person, I think first you must have acceptance.

I'm prepared to mentor any political group, even PAP chaps can come to me, I'll still mentor them. Because the objective must be very clear: you want to train people who will be good MPs. MPs who will think of Singapore first.

Simple people can bring very good knowledge to Parliament because they know the ground.

I cannot say that the PAP has done me wrong or something. I think I'm quite grateful to the PAP.

The key message is I'm always trying to hope the Singaporeans will understand, is a question of every government must be... examined based on certain very fundamental principles to have a good government. You must have transparency.