If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business. Lee Kuan Yew More Quotes by Lee Kuan Yew More Quotes From Lee Kuan Yew If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent. Lee Kuan Yew repent way years India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete. Lee Kuan Yew chinese competition india 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 worst-enemy mind inspiring We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think. Lee Kuan Yew mind people thinking Well if done a lot of hard work to try and get people to act rationally, the fact that weve had 15 deviant Muslims, plus 5 or 8 others that got away does not mean that all Muslims are deviant or extremists. Lee Kuan Yew work mean people 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 sanguine enough needs I can only express the hope that faith in the judicial system will never be diminished, and I am sure it will not, so long as we allow a review of the judicial processes that takes place here in some other tribunal where obviously undue influence cannot be brought to bear. As long as governments are wise enough to leave alone the rights of appeal to some superior body outside Singapore, then there must be a higher degree of confidence in the integrity of our judicial process. This is most important. Lee Kuan Yew rights wise integrity What is of consequence is I did my best. Lee Kuan Yew consequence 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 atheist believe people Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself. Lee Kuan Yew moron genius inspiring You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together again... my asset values will disappear, my apartments will be worth a fraction of what they were, my ministers' jobs will be in peril, their security will be at risk and their women will become maids in other people's countries, foreign workers. Lee Kuan Yew together-again jobs country That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time. The gullible fools! Lee Kuan Yew fool people years Even from my sickbed, even if you are going to lower me into the grave and I feel that something is going wrong, I will get up. Those who believe that after I have left the government as prime minister, I will go into a permanent retirement, really should have their heads examined. Lee Kuan Yew government retirement believe 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 british vote men If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one. Lee Kuan Yew nannies proud inspiring It is not the practice, now will I allow subversives to get away by insisting that I’ve got to prove everything against them in a court of law or [produce] evidence that will stand up to the strict rules of evidence of a court of law. Lee Kuan Yew produce practice law We have over a hundred political detainees, men against whom we are unable to prove anything in a court of law. Nearly 50 of them are men who gave us a great deal of anxiety during the years of Confrontation because they were Malay extremists. Your life and this dinner would not be what it is if my colleagues and I had decided to play it according to the rules of the game. Lee Kuan Yew games play men 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 wife inspiring thinking If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being done, then I would not have the slightest doubt that I could govern much more effectively in their interests. Lee Kuan Yew done authority doubt I have said this on many a previous occasion: that had the mix in Singapore been different, had it been 75% Indians, 15% Malays and the rest Chinese, it would not have worked. Because they believe in the politics of contention, of opposition. But because the culture was such that the populace sought a practical way out of their difficulties, therefore it has worked. Lee Kuan Yew chinese different believe
