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One Quotes by Lee Kuan Yew
- I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us
- 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…
- 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…
- My colleagues and I are of that generation of young men who went through the Second World War and the Japanese Occupation and emerged determined…
- They say, oh, let’s have multiparty politics. Let’s have different parties change and be in charge of the Government. Is it that simple? You vote…
- One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.
- If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.
- There are some flaws in the assumptions made for democracy. It is assumed that all men and women are equal or should be equal. Hence,…
- If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better.
- I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the…
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