If we do not pay Ministers adequately, we will get inadequate Ministers. If you pay peanuts, you will get monkeys for your Ministers. The people will suffer, not the monkeys. I have been in the government long enough to know that if the Cabinet is inadequate, and worse, dishonest, disaster for the country must follow.
- Goh Chok Tong, Republic of Singapore, 1993: cols. 1260-4, quoted from Jon S. T. Quah, " Reward for High Public Office in Singapore," in Christopher Hood & B. Guy Peters with Grace O. M. Lee (Eds.), Reward for High Public Office: Asian and Pacific Rim States (London: Routledge, 2002), p. 156
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