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Lee Kuan Yew Quotes

«Look at the numbers and quality of the engineers and scientists they produce and you know that this is where the R&D will be done. The Chinese have a space program, they are going to put a man on the moon and nobody sold them that technology.»
Author: Lee Kuan Yew
«Few doubt the U.S. will act to remove [Saddam] unless he hands over weapons of mass destruction.»
Author: Lee Kuan Yew
«Yes, we knew that sooner or later, with the build up in the Philippines, in Indonesia and after the KKM arrests in Malaysia that they were bound to penetrate us.»
Author: Lee Kuan Yew
«If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.»
Author: Lee Kuan Yew
«It's a law which is approved of by Singapore's inhabitants and which allows us to reduce the drug problem,»
Author: Lee Kuan Yew
«I'm not as active as before; but enough to fight an election.»
Author: Lee Kuan Yew
«I want a world-class opposition, not a riff-raff.»
Author: Lee Kuan Yew
«I don't think I made a conscious decision as a career choice. From my school days I had decided, persuaded by my parents, to prepare myself for the law. Then the Japanese occupation came and we went through three and a half years of what I would call the university of life, it was hard, it was harsh.»
Author: Lee Kuan Yew
«I learnt how people survived and how people had to submit because you need to eat and your family need to live, so I learned the meaning of power. In a sense that power comes out in the barrel of a gun and when the Japanese gun was not as big as the American gun they surrendered and the British came back.»
Author: Lee Kuan Yew
«Well, I think if I had married a different woman I would of had a very different life. She was my partner both emotionally and intellectually. At work and at play and she brought up the 3 children that we have, brought them up to be well behaved, modest and not over-bearing children.»
Author: Lee Kuan Yew