" For a person who runs a million-dollar charitable
organization,
$600,000 is peanuts as it has a few hundred million in
reserves." -
Mrs Goh Chok Tong
"If you don't include your women
graduates in your breeding pool and
leave them on the shelf, you would end up
a more stupid society... So
what happens? There will be less bright people to
support dumb people
in the next generation. That's a problem." - MM Lee in
1983
"Save on one hairdo and use the money for breast screening." Lim
Hng
Kiang
"Only 5% are unemployed. We still have 95% who are
employed." - Yeo
Cheow Tong
"Retrenchment is good for Singapore.
If there is no retrenchments,
then I worry." - SM Goh
"We must
encourage those who earn less than $200 per month and cannot
afford to
nurture and educate many children never to have more than
two... We will
regret the time lost if we do not now take the first
tentative steps towards
correcting a trend which can leave our society
with a large number of the
physically, intellectually and culturally
anemic." - MM Lee in
1967
"Contrary to public perception, the White Horse classification
is not
to ensure that sons of influential men gets preferential
treatment.
Instead it is to ensure that they do not get preferential
treatment."-
Cedric Foo
"I give you an example: you put out a fun
podcast, you talk about 'bak
chor mee'; I will say "mee siam mai hum", then
we compete." PM Lee
Hsien Loong
"I don't think that there should
be a cap on the number of
directorship that a person can hold." - PAP MP John
Chen who holds 8
directorships
"It's not for the money because
some of the companies pay me as little
as $10,000 a year." - PAP MP Wang Kai
Yuen who holds 11 directorships.
"We started off with (the name) and
after looking at everything, the
name that really tugged at the heartstrings
was in front of us. The
name itself is not new, but what has been used
informally so far has
endeared itself to all parties." - Mah Bow Tan on the
$400,000
exercise to rename Marina Bay as Marina Bay.
"Having
enjoyed football as a national sport for decades, we in
Singapore have set
ourselves the target of reaching the final rounds
of World Cup in 2010." - Ho
Peng Kee
"I would want to form an alternative policies group in
Parliament,
comprising 20 PAP MPs. These 20 PAP MPs will be free to vote
in
accordance with what they think of a particular policy. In other
words,
the whip for them will be lifted. This is not playing politics,
this is
something which I think is worthwhile doing." - SM Goh
"If you want
to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar
Top. Some people will
die as a result of liberalizing bar top
dancing¡ a young girl with a short
skirt dancing on it may attract
some insults from some other men, the
boyfriend will start fighting
and some people will die." - Vivian
Balakrishnan, Minister for
Community Development, Youth and
Sports
"People support CPF cuts because there are no protest
outside
parliament." - PM Lee
"Singaporean workers have become
more expensive than those in the USA
and Australia." - Tony
Tan
"No, it was not a U-turn, and neither was it a reversal of
government
policy. But you can call it a rethink." - Yeo Cheow
Tong
"¡ I regret making the decision because, in the end, the
baby
continued to be in intensive care, and KKH now runs up a total bill
of
more than $300,000¡ " - Lim Hng Kiang, regretting the decision to
save
a baby's life because KKH ran up a $300,000 bill
"Without the
elected president and if there is a freak result, within
two or three years,
the army would have to come in and stop it." - MM
Lee Kuan
Yew
"Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young
people
don't understand this" - Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew,
post-2006
General Elections
"How much do you want? Do you want
three meals in a hawker centre,
food court or restaurant?" - Dr Vivian
Balakrishnan
"People could buy frozen food instead of more expensive
fresh food"
"They could opt for house brand goods, which cost less than
others. "
- PM Lee
"Based on figures provided by ComfortDelGro,
Singapore's biggest taxi
operator, cabbies are pocketing about $11 more a
day, earning about
$318." - Mr. Raymond Lim
"GST hike is to help
the poor." - PM Lee
"'I mean, we are different. This was a lapse,
what to do, it's
happened." - PM Lee
'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... and your asset values will be in peril, your
security will be
at risk and our women will become maids in other people's
countries,
foreign workers.'
- MM Lee - Justifying pay hikes for
Singapore ministers, The Straits
Times, 5 April 2007
'This should
never have happened. I am sorry that it has.' - Wong
Kan Seng
Lim
Swee Say:
Every month, when I receive my CPF statement, I feel so rich and
the
best part is, I know the CPF money won't run away. CPF will still
be
around for a long, long time to come. Not only is it earning
good
interest, my capital is protected.
Leaving the best for
last...
"Right now we have Low Thia Khiang, Chiam See Tong, Steve Chia. We
can
deal with them. Suppose you had 10, 15, 20 opposition members
in
Parliament. Instead of spending my time thinking what is the
right
policy for Singapore, I'm going to spend all my time thinking
what's
the right way to fix them, to buy my supporters votes, how can I
solve
this week's problem and forget about next year's challenges?"PM
Lee
Hsien Loong, 3 May 2006.
AND last but not least, here's what MM
Lee said in April 2007:-
....... you have to pay the market rate or the man
will up stakes and
join Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers or Goldman Sachs and
you would
have an incompetent man and you would lost money by
the
BILLIONS.....!!!!!!
Huh?????
Get out of my elite uncaring face.
CAPSLOCKFTW!
ok
pls ban mookie and seoti
tsk tsk...
Some people just don't learn / get it