Reminds me of our beloved Lee Kuan Yew.
Wise words from our great leader:
"If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without
having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is
being done, then I would not have the slightest doubt that I could
govern much more effectively in their interests." - Mr Lee Kuan
Yew, 1962
"Three women were brought to the Singapore General Hospital,
each in the same condition and needing a blood transfusion. The
first, a Southeast Asian was given the transfusion but died a few
hours later. The second, a South Asian was also given a transfusion
but died a few days later. The third, an East Asian, was given a
transfusion and survived. That is the X factor in development." -
27 December 1967
"We must encourage those who earn less than $200 per month
and cannot afford to nurture and educate many children never to
have more than two... We will regret the time lost if we do not now
take the first tentative steps towards correcting a trend which can
leave our society with a large number of the physically,
intellecually and culturally anaemic." -Lee Kuan Yew in
1967.
"(Without the CPF), Singaporeans would buy enormous
quantities of clothes, shoes, furniture, television sets, radio,
tape recorders, hi-fis, washing machines, motor cars. They would
have no substantial or permanent asset to show for it." - Asian
Wall Street Journal, Oct 21 1985
"We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are
communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are
religious extremists. If you don't do that, the country would be in
ruins." - Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, 1986
"I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of
citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be
here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we
wouldn't be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we
had not intervened on very personal matters - who your neighbour
is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what
language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the
people think." - Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, 20
April 1987
"At this rate, the one-man, one-vote system could lead to
decline and disintegration" - after the Opposition won 2
seats
"The party would withdraw services to the two
opposition-held seats of Anson and Potong Pasir" - On Potong Pasir
and Anson electing non-PAP MPs
“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 get up.”
1988 National Day Rally, when he discussed the leadership
transition to Goh Chok Tong in 1990.
"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 together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put
together again... and your asset values will disappear, your
apartment will be worth a fraction of what it is, your jobs will be
in peril, your security will be at risk and our women will become
maids in other people's countries, foreign workers." - Justifying
million-dollar pay hike for Singapore ministers (Straits Times, 5
April 2007)
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