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India is scared of the competition ... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete. — Lee Kuan Yew

A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress. — Lee Kuan Yew

If there was one formula for our success,it was that we were constantly studying how to make things work,or how to make them work better. — Lee Kuan Yew

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

The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to development. — Lee Kuan Yew

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

Usually I read biographies of interesting people. I am not attracted to novels - make-believe, or recreations of what people think life should be, — Lee Kuan Yew

If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one. — Lee Kuan Yew

Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don't understand this — Lee Kuan Yew

If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent. — Lee Kuan Yew

You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system. — Lee Kuan Yew

At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life. — Lee Kuan Yew

China is a vast, disparate country; there is no alternative to strong central power. — Lee Kuan Yew

If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it. — Lee Kuan Yew

I have decided that we shall make and build and never give way. — Lee Kuan Yew

Freedom of the news media must be subordinated to the overriding needs of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government. — Lee Kuan Yew

I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP. — Lee Kuan Yew

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

One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic. — Lee Kuan Yew

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

If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader. — Lee Kuan Yew

Nine holes of golf will take you one-and-a-half, two hours. I run in 20 minutes, I feel better off. So the cost benefit made me drop golf. — Lee Kuan Yew

Harry was a bright boy. And like many bright boys, he had a little mischief in him. — Patrick Yee

Now if democracy will not work for the Russians, a white Christian people, can we assume that it will naturally work with Asians? — Lee Kuan Yew

If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up. — Lee Kuan Yew

The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts. — Lee Kuan Yew

If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business. — Lee Kuan Yew

Start with putting three of your friends to jail. You definitely know what for, and people will believe you — Lee Kuan Yew

Even from my sick bed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel something is going wrong, I will get up. — Lee Kuan Yew

The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies. — Lee Kuan Yew

The Japanese high command recognised the sexual needs of the men and provided for them. As a consequence, rape was not frequent. — Lee Kuan Yew

I am ... a realist. The magnitude of what one terms license or civil liberties or personal freedom has got to be adjusted to the circumstances. — Lee Kuan Yew

You either use the Internet or you are backward. — Lee Kuan Yew

You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the university. — Lee Kuan Yew

I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose. — Lee Kuan Yew

Having an education is one thing, being educated is another. — Lee Kuan Yew

Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I'm meaningless. — Lee Kuan Yew

what they had endured — Lee Kuan Yew

If you can't think because you can't chew, try a banana. — Lee Kuan Yew

You take a poll of any people. What is it they want? The right to write an editorial as you like? They want homes, medicine, jobs, schools. — Lee Kuan Yew

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 — Lee Kuan Yew

If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline — Lee Kuan Yew

I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course. — Lee Kuan Yew

I always tried to be correct, not politically correct. — Lee Kuan Yew

As you solve one set of problems, new ones appear. That is part of the nature of life. — Lee Kuan Yew

Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead — Lee Kuan Yew

I would not score very highly on religious value. — Lee Kuan Yew

Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself. — Lee Kuan Yew

I believe that life is a process of continuous change and a constant struggle to make that change one for the better. — Lee Kuan Yew