Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew, GCMG, CH, SPMJ, informally known by his initials LKY, was the first Prime Minister of Singapore, governing for three decades. Lee is recognised as the nation's founding father, with the country described as transitioning from the "third world to first world in a single generation" under his leadership...
ProfessionStatesman
Date of Birth16 September 1923
wish laurels
Rest on laurels? I wish I could do that. No, you rest when you're dead
inspiring genius moron
Every person, genius or moron, has a right to reproduce himself.
inspiring thinking wife
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.
inspiring games iron
Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards.
inspiring worst-enemy mind
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.
competition chinese india
India is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.
years way repent
If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.
inspiring add analogies
Singaporeans, if I can chose an analogy, we are the hard disk of a computer, the foreign talent are the megabytes you add to your storage capacity. So your computer never hangs because you got enormous storage capacity.
daughter son worry
You marry a non-graduate, then you are going to worry if your son or daughter is going to make it to the university.
thinking people mind
We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.
inspiring mistake believe
I don't believe in love at first sight. I think it's a grave mistake.
giving way decided
I have decided that we shall make and build and never give way.
drinking self creative
Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself.
sick bed get-up
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.