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Lee Kuan Yew

Geburtstag: 16. September 1923
Todesdatum: 22. März 2015

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.

Zitate Lee Kuan Yew

„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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„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

„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

„I have said this on many a previous occasion: that had the mix in Singapore been different, had it been 75% Indians, 15% Malays and the rest Chinese, it would not have worked. Because they believe in the politics of contention, of opposition. But because the culture was such that the populace sought a practical way out of their difficulties, therefore it has worked.“

— Lee Kuan Yew

„Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards! This is your life and mine! I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.“

— Lee Kuan Yew
Rally, 1980 [http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32012346]

„What role would men and governments in new countries like the mass media to play?... The mass media can help to present Singapore's problems simply and clearly and then explain how if they support certain programmes and policies these problems can be solved. More important, we want the mass media to reinforce, not to undermine, the cultural values and social attitudes being inculcated in our schools and universities.“

— 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/]

„I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions of years have passed over evolution, people have scattered across the face of this earth, been isolated from each other, developed independently, had different intermixtures between races, peoples, climates, soils... I didn't start off with that knowledge. But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.“

— Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997

„If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being done, then I have not the slightest doubt that I could govern much more effectively in their interests.“

— Lee Kuan Yew
Radio Interview, 1960. Quoted in South-East Asia: A Political Profile, Damien Kingsbury (2001, p. 337)

„How does the Malay in the kampong find his way out into this modernised civil society? By becoming servants of the 0.3 per cent who would have the money to hire them to clean their shoe, open their motorcar doors?“

— Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew in the Parliament of Malaysia, 1965 [http://maddruid.com/?p=645]

„If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law - if that is not what we have always cried out against in Fascist states - then what is it?… If we are to survive as a free democracy, then we must be prepared, in principle, to concede to our enemies - even those who do not subscribe to our views - as much constitutional rights as you concede yourself.“

— Lee Kuan Yew
Opposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Legislative Assembly Debates, Sept 21, 1955

„Let us get down to fundamentals. Is this an open, or is this a closed society? Is it a society where men can preach ideas - novel, unorthodox, heresies, to established churches and established governments - where there is a constant contest for men's hearts and minds on the basis of what is right, of what is just, of what is in the national interests, or is it a closed society where the mass media - the newspapers, the journals, publications, TV, radio - either bound by sound or by sight, or both sound and sight, men's minds are fed with a constant drone of sycophantic support for a particular orthodox political philosophy? I am talking of the principle of the open society, the open debate, ideas, not intimidation, persuasion not coercion...“

— Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew, Before Singapore's independence, Malaysian Parliamentary Debates, Dec 18, 1964

„The final verdict will not be in the obituaries. The final verdict will be when the PhD students dig out the archives, read my old papers, assess what my enemies have said, sift the evidence and seek the truth. I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose“

— Lee Kuan Yew
Interview with the New York Times, September 2010 [http://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/data/pdfdoc/20100920006/transcript_of_minister_mentor_lee_kuan_yew.pdf]

„And now in America itself after 30 years of experimenting with the Great Society programmes, there is widespread crime and violence, children kill each other with guns, neigbourhoods are insecure, old people feel forgotten, families are falling apart. And the media attacks the integrity and character of your leaders with impunity, drags down all those in authority and blames everyone but itself.“

— Lee Kuan Yew
Lee Kuan Yew, Interview with Nathan Gardels of Global Viewpoint, Sept 26 1995 [http://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/data/pdfdoc/017-1995-09-26.pdf]

„What if Mr Mah is unable to defend himself, he deserves to lose? No country in the world has given its citizens an asset as valuable as what we've given every family here. And if you say that policy is at fault, you must be daft.“

— Lee Kuan Yew
when asked about a Straits Times report that cited keen opposition interest in contesting Tampines GRC, which National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan helms, so that they can raise the affordability of public housing as an election issue. Prime Minister's Office, January 28 2010 [http://www.pmo.gov.sg/content/pmosite/mediacentre/inthenews/ministermentor/2010/January/fewer_foreign_workersinfiveyearssaysmm.html]

„I bent over a chair and was given three of the best with my trousers on. I did not think he lightened his strokes. I have never understood why Western educationists are so much against corporal punishment. It did my fellow students and me no harm.“

— Lee Kuan Yew
The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, 1998

„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“

— Lee Kuan Yew
MM Lee Kuan Yew on what would happen if a profligate opposition government touched Singapore's vast monetary reserves, "Lee Kuan Yew defends PAP's Political Dominance", Reuters, 16 September 2006

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Zitate Lee Kuan Yew

„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.“

„Das muss man mir nicht sagen. Ich kann es fühlen“

„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.“

„Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards! This is your life and mine! I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.“

„If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being done, then I have not the slightest doubt that I could govern much more effectively in their interests.“

„How does the Malay in the kampong find his way out into this modernised civil society? By becoming servants of the 0.3 per cent who would have the money to hire them to clean their shoe, open their motorcar doors?“

„What if Mr Mah is unable to defend himself, he deserves to lose? No country in the world has given its citizens an asset as valuable as what we've given every family here. And if you say that policy is at fault, you must be daft.“

„I bent over a chair and was given three of the best with my trousers on. I did not think he lightened his strokes. I have never understood why Western educationists are so much against corporal punishment. It did my fellow students and me no harm.“

„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“

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