All Lee Kuan Yew Quotes
- I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say… Alright
- Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will… Bed
- I ignore polling as a method of government. I think that shows a certain weakness of mind - an inability to chart a course whichever… Blow
- I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions of years have… Across
- 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 that… Anybody
- Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalization.. I hold unconventional views about this.. I do not believe if you are a… Believe
- 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 gun… Background
- 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… All
- That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be… Bet
- If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent. Decides
- If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law –… Always Cried
- But we either believe in democracy or we not. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint from the any… Allowed
- What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to… Democratic
- I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us Bequeathed
- If you are a troublemaker…it’s our job to politically destroy you. Put it this way. As long as JB Jeyaretnam stands for what he stands… Bag
- I think in Singapore, we stand a chance of making the one-man-one-vote system work. With amendments as we have done, you know, like GRCs.. We… Adjustments
- I feel sanguine enough to say that there has never been a better set of conditions for open democratic politics because there is no need… Been
- There is nothing to prevent you from pushing your propaganda, to push your programme out to the students or with the public at large…and if… Carry
- Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you,… Anybody
- Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this Assume