That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the… — 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
You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll… — 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
It is essential to rear a generation at the very top of society that has all the qualities needed to lead and… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I’m not interested in changing either my suit or my car or whatever with every change in fashion. That’s irrelevant. I don’t… — 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
It’s irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. What they think of me after I’m dead and gone in one… — 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
I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
China can draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States can draw on a talent pool of… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
The ideas of individual supremacy and the right of free expression, when carried to excess, have not worked. They have made it… — 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… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
You’re talking about Rwanda or Bangladesh, or Cambodia, or the Philippines. They’ve got democracy, according to Freedom House. But have you got… — 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… — Lee Kuan Yew 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
I wouldn't call myself an atheist. I neither deny nor accept that there is a God... So I do not laugh at… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a… — Lee Kuan Yew 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
Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
They say people can think for themselves? Do you honestly believe that the chap who can’t pass primary six knows the consequence… — 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
