"Retrenchment is good for singapore. If there is no
retrenchments, then I worry." - SM Goh
"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
"GST hike is to help the poor." - PM Lee
"Only 5% are unemployed. We still have 95% who are employed." -
Yeo Cheow Tong
"For a person who runs a million-dollar charitable organisation,
$600,000 is peanuts as it has a few hundred millions in reserves."
- Mrs Goh Chok Tong
“People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside
parliament." - PM Lee
"SINGAPOREANS could consider living in nursing homes in
neighbouring Johor Baru, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan
suggested."
"How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker
centre, food court or restaurant?" - Dr Vivian Balakrishnan
"Honest mistake" - Singtel and IDA after the taxation mistake of
not recorded in.
"Let's move on..." - Dun know by how many white scums and how
many times.
"The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) spends more than 80 per
cent of its funds on its beneficiaries." - Lim Hng Khiang
"Save on one hairdo and use the money for breast screening." -
another gem from Lim Hng Kiang
"...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
"Singaporean workers have become more expensive than those in
the USA and Australia." - Tony Tan
"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 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 are not considering a casino but an IR - an integrated
resort. IRs are quite different." - George Yeo
"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.
"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
"If we want to be a world-class city, if we want to be a nation
that has got very good standards of public hygiene and cleanliness,
the best place to start with is the public toilet." - Amy Khor, PAP
MP
"Restoring the pay cuts of civil servants and ministers is
reasonable as Singapore's economy has now regained momentum." - Ng
Eng Hen
"I don't think my reading for the economy is strong enough for
us to even consider asking for the restoration of the cut in CPF."
- Lim Boon Heng
"If we ever introduce anything like quotas or incentives based
on race, it will reinforce the perception that Malays and Indians
have low skills and can only get jobs because of an incentive or
quota." - Tharman Shanmugaretnam
"These schools (SAP schools) need to remain essentially Chinese
to give the edge in interacting with China..." - self contradictory
statement made by Tharman Shanmugaretnam again
"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." - MM Lee in 1967
"The PAP Government has always thrived on its ability to
anticipate problems." - Wong Kan Seng (....hehehee.......listening
to it now)
"We are not able to be everywhere as a government to know
everything in Singapore." - PM Lee
(.........hahahahaaa......listening to the appology now......)
"The opposition's plans to 'give and give' will lead to
Singaporeans having to pay higher taxes in order to foot the bill."
- then DPM Lee at a rally in Tampines, in 2001.
"$2.6b 'Progress Package' for lower-income groups, elderly,
NSmen" - now PM Lee, in 2006
MMLee:
"Our women will be maids in other countries"
(if you do not vote for us)
"Singaporeans are of POOR STOCK....that is why we need
more FTs"
"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
"'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. (cb, when cpf send
monthly statements?)
"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.
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.....!!!!!!
"This is because the public transport fare is not directly
linked to the oil prices. We link it to national factors, like the
inflation level in Singapore, and the wage level in the whole of
Singapore." -Transport Minister, Raymond Lim
"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
