"Let me be clear. We want the world's best and brightest to be with Team Singapore - to augment our skills and capabilities, competing on our side rather than against us, and ultimately, to benefit Singaporeans, not to substitute or hurt them."
"We will also like to encourage all our companies to have a diverse workforce, and not overly rely on any particular source of labour from any particular foreign country. This is just part of good business continuity practices and it will also help us in our social integration." "We will do this by forging stronger partnerships and connections to major innovation nodes and key demand markets," he said.