"It is obvious to any observer that in every western country the increase of importance of public schools has been at least coincident with the relaxation of older family ties."

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If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine gun unit, that's a very tricky business. We've got to know his background... I'm saying these things because they are real, and if I don't think that, and I think even if today the Prime Minister doesn't think carefully about this, we could have a tragedy.

— Lee Kuan Yew