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In his closing remarks at the National Day Rally 2019 on 18 August 2019, PM Lee urged Singaporeans to unite together for Singapore’s future.
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"Over the centuries, people have come to Singapore from different lands. Bringing with them their identities, cultures and beliefs. Their hopes and dreams, their passions and aspirations. Slowly, they wove these strands together to become Singaporeans and to build today’s Singapore.

The next few years will be very demanding. We have to hand over smoothly to a new generation of leaders, and continue to strive to realise our ambitions. My team will work with you to build this jewel of a nation, so that Singapore will always be a vibrant, thriving city where opportunities are open to all, and our children and their children will have a bright future.

Let us strive together to create this future. Let us unite as one nation to build tomorrow’s Singapore.

Thank you and good night."

At the National Day Rally 2019 on 18 August 2019, PM Lee commended the progress of the Singaporean Malay community in education.
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"Our Malay community has progressed because of your emphasis on education. Each successive generation of Malays has been better educated, and thus held better jobs, and led more fulfilling lives, than the previous. As the idiom goes, bit by bit, it will become a hill. And perhaps even a mountain! I can cite many examples. One, as you can see from this photograph taken in 2007, the number of Anugerah Mendaki (Mendaki Awards) recipients who graduated with first class honours was only 7. But look at this picture taken last year. There were 70 of them! A ten-fold increase in 10 years!

Well done to the Malay community!"

"Everything else must bend at the knee to safeguard the existence of our island nation," PM Lee said at the National Day Rally 2019 on 18 August 2019, as he emphasised the importance of implementing a comprehensive defence strategy against climate change.
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"We should treat climate change defences like we treat the SAF – with utmost seriousness. Work steadily at it, maintain a stable budget year after year, keep your eye on the target and do it over many years and several generations. That way we can afford it, and when we need it, we will have it ready. Both the SAF and climate change defences are existential for Singapore. These are life and death matters. Everything else must bend at the knee to safeguard the existence of our island nation. There is one difference between the two. With the SAF, we hope never to go to war. If you have a strong SAF, you may deter threats and avoid having to go to war. But with climate change, we know for sure sea levels will rise. The only uncertainty is whether they rise a few decades earlier, or a few decades later. Therefore, we will implement our climate change plans progressively, and keep them flexible. But we must start now and sustain the effort, as the Dutch have done over the centuries, and as we have done with the SAF.

We must make this effort. Otherwise one day, our children and grandchildren will be ashamed of what our generation did not do."