By Kuan Yew Lee
| Lee Kuan Yew performed the pivotal position in Singapore’s transition from British Crown Colony to self sufficient constructing country, and directly to the economically strong and diplomatically influential city-state it truly is this day. all through this staggering and every now and then painful trip, he has proved a charismatic and infrequently debatable chief. Lee is a conviction baby-kisser whose speeches are unambiguous, characterful and eminently quotable; this number of virtually six hundred brief quotations offers a compelling precis of his perspectives on quite a lot of issues from Singapore’s prior, current and destiny. In Lee's personal phrases: "I were accused of many stuff in my lfe, yet no longer even my worst enemy has ever accused me of being afraid to talk my mind." |
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1987 * * * A society to be successful must maintain a balance between nurturing excellence and encouraging the average to improve. There must be both cooperation and competition between people in the same society. The Singapore cooperation and competition have improved standards of life for all. 1987 * * * The past has been a series of immense challenges over survival and deprivation. We have secured our survival although we can never banish danger. We have provided for our basic needs, homes, schools, hospitals and health services, jobs, whatever.
They have to learn how to live with their neighbours and fend for themselves in a harsh and predatory world. For over 300 years, European colonial domination reduced to near-perpetual tutelage large portions of Asia. And so it is, that we in Malaysia until recently did not have to take upon ourselves the harsh burden of finding our place in a turbulent part of the world in which we are not far from being the richest, whilst we are very far from being the strongest. 1963 * * * Malaysia has a future as long as we have faith and confidence in ourselves, and as long as the leaders have confidence in each other’s good faith.
1967 * * * Nobody here dies of starvation. Nobody is allowed to beg in streets. When we find someone begging, we put him into a home and feed him. And, in two to three years, with all our cleansing services reorganised, we will make this one of the cleanest and most beautiful cities in Asia with trees, flowers and shrubs in all the public places. 1967 * * * Few countries in Asia or Africa have taken over from European colonial administrations, and improved on what they had. We have been able to do this because we have never been afraid to face up to our problems and to tackle them with vigour.