Quotes by George Yeo

“With ministers, with prime ministers, weve always had good relationships.”

“This will continue so Im not too worried about these various demonstrations. Were just being used by various parties to hit at each other.”

“I hope we are improving by our standards. Whether we are improving by your standards or American standards is a different question. Our responsibility is to Singaporeans, and what we do here should meet their approval. There are no universal prescriptions.”

“The world is big enough for both countries and each is too big to be contained by the other.”

In the end, everyone came to the conclusion that however ungainly, however inefficient, however elliptical ASEANs ways are, its still better than not having an ASEAN. That is the genius of ASEAN foreign policy.