“I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.”
- 1982
“One-man-one-vote is a most difficult form of government.. Results can be erratic.”
- Dec 19 1984
“We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don’t do that, the country would be in ruins.”
- 1986
“I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn’t be here today. And I say without the slightest remorse, that we wouldn’t be here, we would not have made economic progress, if we had not intervened on very personal matters – who your neighbour is, how you live, the noise you make, how you spit, or what language you use. We decide what is right. Never mind what the people think.”
- Straits Times, 20 April 1987
“I’m not intellectually convinced that one-man-one-vote is the best. We practise it because that’s what the British bequeathed us.”
- 1994
“Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society.”
- 1997
“They say people can think for themselves? Do you honestly believe that the chap who can’t pass primary six knows the consequence of his choice when he answers a question viscerally, on language, culture and religion? But we knew the consequences. We would starve, we would have race riots. We would disintegrate.”
- 1997
“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”
- On what would happen if a profligate opposition government touched Singapore’s vast monetary reserves, Straits Times, Sept 16 2006
“Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this”
- On the results of the 2006 election
Singaporeans...please take a deep thoughts.......
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