Loong Quotes

#1. I think we have a good foundation which Mr. Lee Kuan Yew laid down, but you have to move forward. Now the question is what can Mr. Lee Hsien Loong and his team, and all our younger ministers can do now to build on the foundation which Mr. Lee Kuan Yew has built.

Tony Tan

#2. There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.

Lee Hsien Loong

#3. Beijing residents joke that to get a free smoke all they have to do is open their windows!

Lee Hsien Loong

#4. The old 7 Series, the E38, was an elegant car, an evolution of the classic BMW look. But it wasn't penetrating the luxury market as we desired. It just didn't have the presence to be noticed.

Chris Bangle

#5. Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different.

Lee Hsien Loong

#6. Our imagination goes ahead of us, bringing our yesterday's imagings into present realities.

Ogwo David Emenike

#7. Daddy would call you his brave soldier boy, and you would believe it. When they lifted you out of that hiding place and smiled at you so proud, you didn't feel like an eight-year-old at all.

Karin Lowachee

#8. There are people who make a hobby of telling others what they can do and what they can't do. I've learnt to not listen to those people.

Omar Samra

#9. The attachment to a rationalistic, teleological notion of progress indicates the absence of true progress; he whose life does not unfold satisfyingly under its own momentum is driven to moralize it, to set up goals and rationalize their achievement as progress.

John Carroll

#10. Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

Julian Barnes

#11. You put out a funny podcast, you talk about bak chor mee. I will say mee siam mai hum.

Lee Hsien Loong

#12. I'm an idiot. I'm ten times an idiot. God, I could just die." Then I forged ahead because the last comment was too close for comfort these days. "Not die die, as in not-breathing die, but die figuratively, if you know what I mean." Lee was grinning.

Kristen Ashley

#13. To be honest, going out with Ed after Josh is like moving on to Duchy Originals super-tasty seeded loaf after plastic white bread. (I don't mean to be rude about Josh. And I didn't realize it at the time. But it is. He is. Plastic white bread.)

Sophie Kinsella

#14. You don't realize how old you've become until someone young comes around to remind you.

Christopher Bollen

#15. People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside parliament.

Lee Hsien Loong