Quote by Cherian George

“Under Goh, the government continued to be suspicious of prevailing popular opinion and special interests, and focused instead on what it saw as Singapore's…

— Cherian George

“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

However, should any Singaporean consistently establish that he or she rejects Singapore or our Constitution or runs Singapore down with a political agenda overseas,…

— Pritam Singh

“Of all the attempts to propel Singapore faster along the path of political liberalisation, few have backfired as badly as the West's push for…

— Cherian George

“Singapore's tragedy is not the absence of idealism, but that it systematically rewards the individualistic majority and discourages the socially-conscious minority. This is at…

— Cherian George

“Singaporeans seemed generally quite loathe to discuss these more intimate policies of government with a curious foreign visitor who was more than twice as…

— William Gibson

“The Singapore School of Thought, as some began to call it, emphasised the lack of universality of many Western political norms...Singapore's own view emphasised…

— Cherian George

“Singaporeans know who we are supposed to be, but have not been given much of a chance to say who we want to be.”

— Sudhir Thomas Vadaketh

I have said this on many a previous occasion: that had the mix in Singapore been different, had it been 75% Indians, 15% Malays…

— Lee Kuan Yew

“But the habit of framing issues in terms of Asian and Western values did distort Singapore's view of its own challenges. Policy-makers looking through…

— Cherian George

“We are told that the main risk factors threatening Singapore's peace and prosperity are, first, our own unreliability as citizens (we may succumb to…

— Cherian George

I was drawn to the ethos of WP, which believes in building a strong and reasonable opposition that contributes to our political landscape in…

— Nicole Seah