At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The area I hope we can learn most from Singapore is in the productivity and efficiency of its public servants. — Ko Wen-je Copy Share Image
I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic. — Lynn Collins Copy Share Image
Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai, the biggest factory in the world is in China, the largest oil… — Fareed Zakaria Copy Share Image
Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised.… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
Singapore has been incredibly well-managed. It was created out of the swamp, with a strong emotional idea: a safe place for mostly… — Nicolas Berggruen Copy Share Image
“Singaporeans seemed generally quite loathe to discuss these more intimate policies of government with a curious foreign visitor who was more than… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
If you don’t include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
My family was in Singapore when the Japanese War started. We were in Singapore at the time of Pearl Harbor, and by… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Even in a society as tightly controlled as Singapore's, the market creates certain forces which perhaps in the long run may lead… — Peter L. Berger Copy Share Image
When you're shooting that fast end to end, you wake up in a hotel and you don't know where you are. You're… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
More broadly, Prime Minister Lee [Hsien Loong] and I will work to advance the US-Singapore partnership across the board. We're committed to… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
As a young child I wanted to be a writer because writers were rich and famous. They lounged around Singapore and Rangoon… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
This distraction is what one wants, which is very, very bad for the muse, because the muse hates not being in the… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
The human being is an unequal creature. That is a fact. And we start off with the proposition. All the great religions,… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
China is a great manufacturing center, but it's actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Whether a plane to Singapore, a subway in Manhattan, or the streets of Cincinnati, I search for meaningful conversation wherever I may… — Dhani Jones Copy Share Image
My number one goal was to always have to opportunity to have an international business of some sort, opening in Paris, opening… — David Myers Copy Share Image
On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
Singapore could only be taken after a siege by an army of at least 50,000 men. It is not considered possible that… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that,… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The reason I moved to Singapore is because everything is so organised and streamlined. There's no 'who you know,' there's no anything… — Nuseir Yassin Copy Share Image
There are things I admire, for example, about South Korea or Singapore. I admire their history, their development and how intensively they… — Paul Kagame Copy Share Image
Our long-term dream is for Singapore to have a healthy democracy where there are two or three parties who could form a… — Pritam Singh Copy Share Image
When you brought the digital revolution in, all of a sudden, you could build a country like Singapore and take that country,… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
The United States government approaches patient choice in medication as Singapore does free speech: its pronouncements sound reasonable and tolerant until you… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
Singapore gives 10% "white space" time to all of its teachers to come up with their own innovations outside of the official… — Andy Hargreaves Copy Share Image
My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy… — Goh Chok Tong Copy Share Image
When it comes to Singapore's sovereignty, there can be no doubt where the WP has stood and will continue to stand. We… — Pritam Singh Copy Share Image
There is a real risk of a parliament dominated completely by elected PAP MPs. Is that a good outcome for Singapore? I… — Pritam Singh Copy Share Image
[We] are focused on protecting and defending our common security and upholding a rules-based order that undergirds the peace and prosperity of… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Within less than an hour of arriving in Singapore, it was clear we had arrived in a country where eating has been… — Fiona Bruce Copy Share Image
Like so much in Singapore, admission to the Marina Bay's casino is hierarchical: Free for anyone with an international passport, costly for… — Alan Huffman Copy Share Image
For the world's four Chinese-speaking regions - Taiwan, Singapore, Hong Kong and mainland China - the longer the colonization, the more advanced… — Ko Wen-je Copy Share Image
The day I signed for Chelsea, I had to go around the world - from Los Angeles to Singapore, through London -… — Alvaro Morata Copy Share Image