The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate,… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I have never been over concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe if… — Lee Kuan Yew 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
Even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel that something is going… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists.… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
There are some flaws in the assumptions made for democracy. It is assumed that all men and women are equal or should… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
But we either believe in democracy or we not. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint… — 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
If you are a troublemaker…it’s our job to politically destroy you. Put it this way. As long as JB Jeyaretnam stands for… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
We have over a hundred political detainees, men against whom we are unable to prove anything in a court of law. Nearly… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
We must encourage those who earn less than $200 per month and cannot afford to nurture and educate many children never to… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
“You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Supposing Catherine Lim was writing about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare, right? Because my posture, my response has been such… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the university. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I was a product of the times, the war, the occupation, the reoccupation, my 4 years in Britain, admiring but at the same time… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Three women were brought to the Singapore General Hospital, each in the same condition and needing a blood transfusion. The first, a Southeast Asian… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work. — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
