America is a great nation, not just because of your power and your wealth, but because of your high ideals, openness, and generosity of spirit.
My infrastructure must run brilliantly. My whole system must be different from what you can get anywhere else in Asia.
The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.
One of the reasons America is welcome in Asia is because with America... there is a certain idealism and a certain bigness of soul. You want the region to prosper; you want countries to do well, and you are prepared to help them.
We stand stoutly against all forms of terrorism, and cross-border terror is a particular problem that India has. Singapore has a problem with cross-border terror, too, because we are a very small country, and it is quite possible for an attack to be mounted on Singapore from beyond our shores.
