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If you want to reach your goals and dreams, you cannot do it without discipline
If nobody is afraid of me, I'm meaningless.
I know if I rest, I'll slide downhill fast.
I'm not guided by what Human Rights Watch says.
I had some very powerful minds working with me.
You either use the Internet or you are backward.
I would not score very highly on religious value.
I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.
If you can't think because you can't chew, try a banana.
We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.
A military presence does not need to be used to be useful.
Having an education is one thing, being educated is another.
I am not interested in ratings by Freedom House or whatever.
I have decided that we shall make and build and never give way.
How do I comfort myself? Well, I say, 'Life is just like that.'
Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself.
If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.
I don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake.
Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead
One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.
I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.
At the end of the day, is Singapore society better or worse off? That's the test.
The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.
If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.
China is a vast, disparate country; there is no alternative to strong central power.
Prudence dictates that there should be a balance of power in the Asia-Pacific region.
As you solve one set of problems, new ones appear. That is part of the nature of life.
I hope more women will join us in our journey towards a more balanced political system.
Peace and security both in Europe and in the Pacific still depend on a balance of power.
Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.
If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.
India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.
The same law applies to me. Nobody has sued me for libel because I do not defame my enemies.
Latecomers to industrial development have had to catch up by finding ways of closing the gap.
At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.
If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.
Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards.
I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.
What I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.
Let the historians and the Ph.D. students work out their doctrines. I'm not interested in theories per se.
If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.
The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to development.
My loyalty is first and foremost, to the people of Singapore. It has always been so, and will always remain so.
You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.
You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the university.
A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.
If you can't force or are unwilling to force your people to follow you, with or without threats, you are not a leader.
The enduring lesson is war is a disaster. Whoever wins, tremendous loss of life, property - a set back for civilisation.
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.
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.
