Quote by Lee Kuan Yew

“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

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

I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose.

— Lee Kuan Yew

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

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

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

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

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

India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.

— Lee Kuan Yew

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

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

What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.

— Lee Kuan Yew