Quotes About Mr Lee Kuan Yew

#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. I knew that my niece was working nearby with some bank, so my wife rang up the mother and the mother called back to say that shes just called up to say she was alright.

Lee Kuan Yew

#3. 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.

Lee Kuan Yew

#4. The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to development.

Lee Kuan Yew

#5. I am not given to making sense out of life - or coming up with some grand narrative on it - other than to measure it by what you think you want to do in life. As for me, I have done what I had wanted to, to the best of my ability. I am satisfied.

Lee Kuan Yew

#6. For reasons of sentiment, I would like part of my ashes to be mixed up with Mama's, and both her ashes and mine put side by side in the columbarium. We were joined in life and I would like our ashes to be joined after this life.

Lee Kuan Yew

#7. Any time, every time, you can damn the Prime Minister and so long as it is not a lie and a criminal lie, nothing happens to you. You can say a lot of things. You can write books about him, damning him. So long as it is not a libel, go ahead.

Lee Kuan Yew

#8. I'm not intellectually convinced that one-man, one-vote is the best. We practise it because that's what the British bequeathed us

Lee Kuan Yew

#9. I feel sanguine enough to say that there has never been a better set of conditions for open democratic politics because there is no need for unified front politics.

Lee Kuan Yew

#10. You begin your journey not knowing where it will take you. You have plans, you have dreams, but every now and again you have to take uncharted roads, face impassable mountains, cross treacherous rivers, be blocked by landslides and earthquakes. That's the way my life has been.

Lee Kuan Yew

#11. China is a vast, disparate country; there is no alternative to strong central power.

Lee Kuan Yew

#12. The human being needs a challenge, and my advice to every person in Singapore and elsewhere: Keep yourself interested, have a challenge.

Lee Kuan Yew

#13. President Nixon was a pragmatic strategist. He would engage, not contain, China, but he would also quietly set pieces into place for a fallback position should China not play according to the rules as a good global citizen.

Lee Kuan Yew

#14. What are our priorities? First, the welfare, the survival of the people. Then, democratic norms and processes which from time to time we have to suspend.

Lee Kuan Yew

#15. I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose.

Lee Kuan Yew

#16. I have been accused of many things in my life, but not even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to speak my mind.

Lee Kuan Yew

#17. I wouldn't call myself an atheist. I neither deny nor accept that there is a God. So I do not laugh at people who believe in God. But I do not necessarily believe in God - nor deny that there could be one.

Lee Kuan Yew

#18. I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.

Lee Kuan Yew

#19. I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.

Lee Kuan Yew

#20. Having an education is one thing, being educated is another.

Lee Kuan Yew

#21. If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

Lee Kuan Yew

#22. The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.

Lee Kuan Yew

#23. He took over, and he said: 'If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.'" - Recalling how former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping dealt with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests

Lee Kuan Yew

#24. From 1945 to 1991, China was engaged in a series of wars that nearly broke them. This generation has been through hell: the Great Leap Forward, hunger, starvation, near collision with the Russians - the Cultural Revolution gone mad. I have no doubt that this generation wants a peaceful rise.

Lee Kuan Yew

#25. If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.

Lee Kuan Yew

#26. I wish I can meet my wife in the hereafter, but I don't think I will. I just cease to exist just as she has ceased to exist.

Lee Kuan Yew

#27. Most libels, and I have taken about 30 actions, take place at election time. It has not stuck because I am prepared to go before a court, stand in the witness box and face the most aggressive of lawyers who can cross-examine me on my personal history.

Lee Kuan Yew

#28. If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.

Lee Kuan Yew

#29. India is scared of the competition ... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.

Lee Kuan Yew

#30. It's irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. I've lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after you're dead.

Lee Kuan Yew

#31. what they had endured

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#32. For the young, let me tell you the sky has turned brighter. There's a glorious rainbow that beckons those with the spirit of adventure. And there are rich findings at the end of the rainbow. To the young and to the not-so-old, I say, look at that horizon, follow that rainbow, go ride it.

Lee Kuan Yew