" For a person who runs a million-dollar charitable
organization,
$600,000 is peanuts as it has a few hundred million in reserves."
-
Mrs Goh Chok Tong
"If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool
and
leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society...
So
what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb
people
in the next generation. That's a problem." - MM Lee in 1983
"Save on one hairdo and use the money for breast screening." Lim
Hng
Kiang
"Only 5% are unemployed. We still have 95% who are employed." -
Yeo
Cheow Tong
"Retrenchment is good for Singapore. If there is no
retrenchments,
then I worry." - SM Goh
"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, intellectually and
culturally
anemic." - MM Lee in 1967
"Contrary to public perception, the White Horse classification is
not
to ensure that sons of influential men gets preferential
treatment.
Instead it is to ensure that they do not get preferential
treatment."-
Cedric Foo
"I give you an example: you put out a fun podcast, you talk about
'bak
chor mee'; I will say "mee siam mai hum", then we compete." PM
Lee
Hsien Loong
"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.
"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
"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 want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the
bar
Top. Some people will die as a result of liberalizing 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
"People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside
parliament." - PM Lee
"Singaporean workers have become more expensive than those in the
USA
and Australia." - Tony Tan
"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
"Without the elected president and if there is a freak result,
within
two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it." -
MM
Lee Kuan Yew
"Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young
people
don't understand this" - Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew,
post-2006
General Elections
"How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker
centre,
food court or restaurant?" - Dr Vivian Balakrishnan
"People could buy frozen food instead of more expensive fresh
food"
"They could opt for house brand goods, which cost less than others.
"
- PM Lee
"Based on figures provided by ComfortDelGro, Singapore's biggest
taxi
operator, cabbies are pocketing about $11 more a day, earning
about
$318." - Mr. Raymond Lim
"GST hike is to help the poor." - PM Lee
"'I mean, we are different. This was a lapse, what to do,
it's
happened." - PM Lee
'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 be in peril, your security will
be
at risk and our women will become maids in other people's
countries,
foreign workers.'
- MM Lee - Justifying pay hikes for Singapore ministers, The
Straits
Times, 5 April 2007
'This should never have happened. I am sorry that it has.' -
Wong
Kan Seng
Lim Swee Say:
Every month, when I receive my CPF statement, I feel so rich and
the
best part is, I know the CPF money won't run away. CPF will still
be
around for a long, long time to come. Not only is it earning
good
interest, my capital is protected.
Leaving the best for last...
"Right now we have Low Thia Khiang, Chiam See Tong, Steve Chia. We
can
deal with them. Suppose you had 10, 15, 20 opposition members
in
Parliament. Instead of spending my time thinking what is the
right
policy for Singapore, I'm going to spend all my time thinking
what's
the right way to fix them, to buy my supporters votes, how can I
solve
this week's problem and forget about next year's challenges?"PM
Lee
Hsien Loong, 3 May 2006.
AND last but not least, here's what MM Lee said in April
2007:-
....... you have to pay the market rate or the man will up stakes
and
join Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers or Goldman Sachs and you
would
have an incompetent man and you would lost money by the
BILLIONS.....!!!!!!
