actually he should rephrase it... "If i have to shoot 200,000
ignorant students to save 1.3billion chinese from another 100 years
of sorrow and poverty, though it pains me through and
through.....let me alone bear the price and sins"
''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 that nobody doubts that if you take me on, I
will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul de sac...
Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle dusters.
If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There
is no other way you can govern a Chinese society.''
rephrase... "I am not fighting for myself.... as a leader of
singapore, i fight for everyone who rallies to my banner......In
the real world... we cannot expect mercy from our opponents...
naviety and a heart of innocence sounds hollow and cannot be used
as an excuse when you fail your people and those who place their
lives and their family in your hand."
"Put it this way. As long as Jeyaretnam [Workers' Party leader]
stands for what he stands for -- a thoroughly destructive force --
we will knock him. There are two ways of playing this. One, you
attack the policies; two, you attack the system. Jeyaretnam was
attacking the system, he brought the Chief Justice into it. If I
want to fix you, do I need the Chief Justice to fix you? Everybody
knows that in my bag I have a hatchet, and a very sharp one. You
take me on, I take my hatchet, we meet in the cul-de-sac. That's
the way I had to survive in the past. That's the way the communists
tackled me. He brought the Chief Justice into the political
arena."
rephrase... "we all fight to win... even a bird fights to
survive by catching the early worm... who wants to loose?"
"Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic
liberalisation. I do not believe that if you are libertarian, full
of diverse opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place,
full of sound and fury, therefore you will succeed."
repharse... "there are many systems of govt, each have its pros
and cons... there are no perfect system... ultimately its the
qualities, the character and the skills of the leaders in power
that decides if a system succeed or fail."
