We are over the hump. We have sealed the cracks. We have neutralized some probable plans, but we are not letting our guards down.

When your men in the field continue operating even [in] the worst kind of weather and terrain, then they are assured they are sticking to their mandate, to their true job of being military men.

They all have the intention, but no capability. They cannot win and they cannot succeed because many have turned around.

We could not tell you how deep their involvement is, because that is the subject of the investigation.

We are not to be regarded as a potent political force to be used by politicians in the furtherance of their vested interests. As mandated, we must remain apolitical.

We are not precluding the possibility that something could happen.

When you are in the military, you have to accept the fact you have rejected your right to say what you want to say, how you want to dress, where you want to be. At the word of the commander, they should rise early, climb mountains, endure bad weather, endure hard terrain and the bullet of the enemy ... I do that every now and then to my men in our training.

I am not accusing General Lim of having talked to the CPP Central Committee, but his actions would have benefited the long-term enemies of the state.

We have uncovered a plot by coup leaders, their civilian supporters and communist insurgents to take military and government officials hostage and force the President to step down and then install a transition government.