You’re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. They’ve got democracy, according to Freedom House. But have you got a civilised life to lead? People want economic development first and foremost. The leaders may talk something else.… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools. — 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 Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again... my asset values will disappear, my apartments will be worth a fraction of what they were, my ministers' jobs will be in peril, their security will… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share
The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do with culture. The whites score on average 100. Asians score more ... the Bell curve authors put it at least 10 points higher. These are realities that, if you do not accept, will lead to… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share
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
