Lee Kuan Yew

I dragged Singapore kicking and screaming from Third World to First.

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I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.

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you can see there are some [Singaporean Malays] still wearing headscarves but very modern looking

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We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts.

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we were against F1 for many decades because we were a crowded city; & having cars racing around would encourage pple to race along our roads

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climate and diet may have given East Asians a cultural edge over South East Asians in coping with modern economic development

[Lee Kuan Yew @LKYsays]

in a Confucian society, the phrase 'loyal opposition' is a contradiction in terms

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I will hit you where it hurts. Then we will see your commitment to a free press.

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If you start saying ‘Oh, I’m old’ and you start reading novels or playing golf or playing chess or Scrabble, you’re on your way down.

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Any Chinese who says that any newspaper is the voice of the Chinese is a dangerous lunatic who should be promptly put away

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We never run away from the open debate

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people in Singapore do not equate their political leaders with second-hand car salesmen.

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Now with China’s growing economy, parents and students no longer complain of the burden of learning Chinese

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We had graffiti experts from England and Switzerland to try to break our laws

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First, we educated and exhorted our people. After we had persuaded and won over a majority, we legislated to punish the willful minority.

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That I was better than my peers I knew, I suppose, from the time I was about 12 because I was always among the top few in the class

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Heathrow still stands as an ancient monument to symbolize a lack of dare and dash.

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we are getting soft. You know, all sunshine and bananas growing on trees and coconuts falling down by themselves - this affects people

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in between the ruins of Borobodur and what you have of Indonesia today, you see a people primarily self-indulgent

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I found [Devan Nair] an unlikeable person. He was short, squat, pugnacious and obviously angry with the world... I did not like his looks.

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Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don't understand this.