Retrenchment is good for singapore. If there is no
retrenchments, then I worry." - SM Goh
"I don't think that there should be a cap on the number of
directorship that a person can hold." - PAP MP John Chen who holds
8 directorships.
"It's not for the money because some of the companies pay me as
little as $10,000 a year." - PAP MP Wang Kai Yuen who holds 11
directorships.
"If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the
bar Top. Some people will die as a result of liberalising bar top
dancing... a young girl with a short skirt dancing on it may
attract some insults from some other men, the boyfriend will start
fighting and some people will die." - Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister
for Community Development, Youth and Sports
"I would want to form an alternative policies group in Parliament,
comprising 20 PAP MPs. These 20 PAP MPs will be free to vote in
accordance with what they think of a particular policy. In other
words, the whip for them will be lifted. This is not playing
politics, this is something which I think is worthwhile doing." -
SM Goh
"If you sing Jailhouse Rock with your electric guitar when others
are playing Beethoven, you are out of order. The whip must be used
on you." - SM Goh again, on a dramatic u-turn, rethink or
backtrack, whatever you call it.
"Save on one hairdo and use the money for breast screening." -
another gem from Lim Hng Kiang
"We started off with (the name) and after looking at everything,
the name that really tugged at the heartstrings was in front of us.
The name itself is not new, but what has been used informally so
far has endeared itself to all parties." - Mah Bow Tan on the
$400,000 exercise to rename Marina Bay as Marina Bay.
"Having enjoyed football as a national sport for decades, we in
Singapore have set ourselves the target of reaching the final
rounds of World Cup in 2010." - Ho Peng Kee
"Only 5% are unemployed. We still have 95% who are employed." - Yeo
Cheow Tong
"Singaporean workers have become more expensive than those in the
USA and Australia." - Tony Tan
"People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside
parliament." - PM Lee
"No, it was not a U-turn, and neither was it a reversal of
government policy. But you can call it a rethink." - Yeo Cheow
Tong
"...I regret making the decision because, in the end, the baby
continued to be in intensive care, and KKH now runs up a total bill
of more than $300,000..." - Lim Hng Kiang, regretting the decision
to save a baby's life because KKH ran up a $300,000 bill
I feel a sense of disenchantment nothing like say an American
celebrating their first 50 years of independence as an immigrant
state.
