„Das muss man mir nicht sagen. Ich kann es fühlen“
— Lee Kuan Yew
Antwort auf die Frage hin, wenn er nicht mehr gebraucht würde. Quelle:BBC News: Lee Kuan Yew staying on at 80 vom 16. September 2003 abgerufen am 26. Februar 2010
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Lee Kuan Yew
Geburtstag: 16. September 1923
Todesdatum: 22. März 2015
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Lee Kuan Yew war ein Politiker in der Republik Singapur. Er war der erste Premierminister des Stadtstaates Singapur und übte dieses Amt von 1959 bis 1990 aus. Von 1990 bis 2004 gehörte er dem Kabinett seines Nachfolgers Goh Chok Tong als Senior Minister an. Im Kabinett seines Sohnes Lee Hsien Loong, des dritten Premierministers der Republik Singapur, war er von 2004 bis 2011 Minister Mentor; dieser Posten war speziell für ihn geschaffen worden. Nachdem seine Regierungspartei People’s Action Party bei der Parlamentswahl 2011 das schlechteste Ergebnis seit 1963 erzielt hatte, zog sich Lee nach 52 Jahren aus der Regierung zurück.
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„Hätte ich in Singapur die absolute Macht und müsste die repräsentierten Bürger nicht fragen, ob sie das, was gemacht wird, mögen, dann könnte ich ohne Zweifel viel effektiver in ihrem Interesse regieren.“
— Lee Kuan Yew
geäußert 1962, zugeschrieben in: Markus Breuer: Die Weltbank und ihr Vorgehen zur Bekämpfung der globalen Armut. Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz 2007, S. 30, ISBN 978-3-638-80378-6
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„Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalisation. I do not believe that if you are libertarian, full of diverse opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place, full of sound and fury, therefore you will succeed.“
— Lee Kuan Yew
Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, Aug 17, 2004
„Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.“
— Lee Kuan Yew
Address To The General Assembly Of The International Press Institute At Helsinki Wednesday, 9th June, 1971 http://journalism.sg/lee-kuan-yews-1971-speech-on-the-press/
„Mah Bow Tan, age 16, took his 'O' levels - six distinctions, two credits. Mr Chiam, age 18 - 1953 I think - six credits, one pass. He passed his English language, not bad. The next year, in 1954, he worked harder, he got a credit for his English. So you see, it's not because he doesn't know English that he found difficult in expressing himself. It's what's inside here *tapping his head*. And you better search your inside here before you cast your votes. Goodbye and good luck.“
— Lee Kuan Yew
Speech at Fullerton Square dissing Chiam See tong, 19 December 1984 http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19841220-1.2.32.5.aspx
„I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.“
— Lee Kuan Yew
(quoted in Milne and Mauzy 1990, p. 85) http://books.google.com/books?id=gzdbfu55IGgC&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=I+make+no+apologies+that+the+PAP+is+the+Government+and+the+Government+is+the&source=bl&ots=S0zsvGrdSE&sig=BdKP_Lx7rh0f0xG6Y0dmn8TgGWc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lNjuUqqGD8PlsATSi4DACw&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=I%20make%20no%20apologies%20that%20the%20PAP%20is%20the%20Government%20and%20the%20Government%20is%20the&f=false
„At the end of the day, if you are in Aljunied, ask yourself: Do you want one MP, one Non-Constituency MP, one celebrity who has been away 30 years, and two unknowns to look after you? Or would you prefer me and my hand-picked colleagues?“
— Lee Kuan Yew
assessment on the alternative Workers' Party candidates contesting in the Aljunied GRC for General Elections 2011 (Yahoo News, April 30, 2011, http://sg.news.yahoo.com/aljunied-voters-will-regret-choosing-wp--mm-lee.html)
„One of the crucial yardsticks by which we shall have to judge the results of the new abortion law combined with the voluntary sterilisation law will be whether it tends to raise or lower the total quality of our population. 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. Intelligent application of these laws can help reduce the distortion that has already set in. Until the less educated themselves are convinced and realise that they should concentrate their limited resources on one or two to give their children the maximum chance to climb up the educational ladder, their children will always be at the bottom of the economic scale. It is unlikely that the results will be discernible before five years. Nor will the effect be felt before fifteen to twenty years. But 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 anaemic.“
— Lee Kuan Yew
Abortion Bill (As reported from Select Committee), 29 Dec 1969. Singapore Parliament Reports http://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/topic.jsp?currentTopicID=00054060-ZZ¤tPubID=00069213-ZZ&topicKey=00069213-ZZ.00054060-ZZ_1%2Bid015_19691229_S0003_T00031-bill%2B
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„If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.“
— Lee Kuan Yew
warning voters in Aljunied GRC on the consequence of voting for the alternative Workers' Party, which the PAP eventually lost to. (Yahoo News, April 30, 2011, http://sg.news.yahoo.com/aljunied-voters-will-regret-choosing-wp--mm-lee.html)
„If, for instance, you put in a Malay officer who's very religious and who has family ties in Malaysia in charge of a machine gun unit, that's a very tricky business. We've got to know his background... I'm saying these things because they are real, and if I don't think that, and I think even if today the Prime Minister doesn't think carefully about this, we could have a tragedy.“
— Lee Kuan Yew
SM Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, September 19, 1999 on Malays in the Singapore Armed Forces
„The Bell curve is a fact of life. The blacks on average score 85 per cent on IQ and it is accurate, nothing to do with culture. The whites score on average 100. Asians score more … the Bell curve authors put it at least 10 points higher. These are realities that, if you do not accept, will lead to frustration because you will be spending money on wrong assumptions and the results cannot follow.“
— Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
„Supposing I'm now 21, 22, what would I do? I would not be absorbed in wanting to change life in Singapore. I'm not responsible for Singapore... Why should I go and undertake this job and spend my whole life pushing this for a lot of people for whom nothing is good enough? I will have a fall-back position, which many are doing - have a house in Perth or Vancouver or Sydney, or an apartment in London, in case I need some place suddenly, and think about whether I go on to America.“
— Lee Kuan Yew
SM Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
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„I have never been over concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader. Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.“
— Lee Kuan Yew
The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, 1998, as quoted by http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-05-24/tech/30081331_1_singaporean-lee-kuan-yew-political-landscape
„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.“
— Lee Kuan Yew
National Day Rally, 1983. Cited in The Coming Population Crash: And Our Planet's Surprising Future, Fred Pearce
„When I call a man openly, you're a liar, you're dishonest, and you do not dare to sue me, there's something basically wrong. And I will repeat it anywhere and you can't go and say, oh, I have apologised; let's move on. Can you commit a dishonourable -- maybe even one which is against the law -- an illegal act and say, let's move on because I've apologised? You may move on but you're going to move on out of politics in time.“
— Lee Kuan Yew
MM Lee Kuan Yew on James Gomez, Channelnewsasia, May 2006
„Let me give you an example that encapsulates the whole difference between America and Singapore. America has a vicious drug problem. How does it solve it? It goes around the world helping other anti-narcotic agencies to try and stop the suppliers... Singapore does not have that option. What we can do is to pass a law which says that any customs officer or policeman who sees anybody in Singapore behaving suspiciously... can require that man to have his urine tested. If the sample is found to contain drugs, the man immediately goes for treatment. In America if you did that it would be an invasion of the individual's rights and you would be sued.“
— Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew, Interview with Fareed Zakaria of Foreign Policy, 1994 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/asia/1994-03-01/conversation-lee-kuan-yew
