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Lee Kuan Yew

Geburtstag: 16. September 1923
Todesdatum: 23. 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. Wikipedia

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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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„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 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/3112220.stm vom 16. September 2003 abgerufen am 26. Februar 2010
Original: "You don't have to tell me. I can feel it."

„We allow American journalists in Singapore in order to report Singapore to their fellow countrymen...But we cannot allow them to assume a role in Singapore that the American media play in America, that is, that of invigilator, adversary and inquisitor of the administration.“

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—  Lee Kuan Yew

In 1984, National Day speech. Quoted in S. Balakrishna, Seventy years of secularism. 2018.
1980s

„Malays abhor the state of celibacy. To remain unmarried was and is considered shameful. Everyone must be married at some time or other. The result is that whether a person is fit or unfit for marriage, he or she still marries and reproduces. An idiot or a simpleton is often married off to an old widower, ostensibly to take care of him in his old age. If this is not possible, backward relatives are paired off in marriage. These people survive, reproduce and propagate their species. The cumulative effect of this can be left to the imagination.“

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—  Lee Kuan Yew

[Barr, Michael D., Lee Kuan Yew: Race, Culture and Genes, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 1999, 29 2, 147, https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5058/d1bc358fe18944e8aaa399e422f74d0fed75.pdf]
1980s

„Hard Truths was a book based on 32 hours of interviews over a period of two years. I made this one comment on the Muslims integrating with other communities probably two or three years ago. Ministers and MPs, both Malay and non-Malay, have since told me that Singapore Malays have indeed made special efforts to integrate with the other communities, especially since 9/11, and that my call is out of date. I stand corrected. I hope that this trend will continue in the future.“

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—  Lee Kuan Yew

statement that he stands corrected on how well-integrated Malay-Muslims are in Singapore (Asia One, March 08, 2011 http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20110308-267055.html)
2010s

„That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time.“

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—  Lee Kuan Yew

On winning 88% of the votes in 1968 (actual share was 84.43%), The Straits Times, March 7, 2007
2000s

„He picked up from me a certain way of thinking, certain logic, certain cut of mind. He has got from his mother a facility with words, and a certain intuition. So please do give him some slack, if you find that he thinks slowly, and speaks even more slowly.“

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Lee Kuan Yew on Lee Hsien Loong, Straits Times, Jun 22, 2004
2000s

„Equal employment opportunities, yes, but we shouldn't get our women into jobs where they cannot, at the same time, be mothers…our most valuable asset is in the ability of our people, yet we are frittering away this asset through the unintended consequences of changes in our education policy and equal opportunities for women. This has affected their traditional role … as mothers, the creators and protectors of the next generation.“

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—  Lee Kuan Yew

[Wong, Theresa, Brenda Yeoh, Fertility and the Family: An Overview of Pro-natalist Population Policies in Singapore, ASIAN METACENTRE RESEARCH PAPER SERIES, 2003, 12, http://www.populationasia.org/Publications/RP/AMCRP12.pdf]
1980s

„Look, Jeyaretnam can't win the infighting. I'll tell you why. WE are in charge. Every government ministry and department is under our control. And in the infighting, he will go down for the count every time… I will make him crawl on his bended knees, and beg for mercy.“

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1981, as recounted by former President C. V. Devan Nair, as quoted in Beyond suspicion?: the Singapore judiciary, Francis T. Seow http://www.singapore-window.org/sw99/90321dn.htm
1980s

„For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories.“

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August 9, 1965, when Lee announced the separation of Singapore from Malaysia, as quoted in The Theatre and the State in Singapore: Orthodoxy and Resistance, Terence Chong
1960s

„But we either believe in democracy or we don't. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint from the any democratic processes, other than by the ordinary law of the land, should be allowed… If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally. If you believe that men should be free, then, they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication. Then, no law should permit those democratic processes to be set at nought, and no excuse, whether of security, should allow a government to be deterred from doing what it knows to be right, and what it must know to be right…“

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Lee Kuan Yew, Legislative Assembly Debates, April 27, 1955
1950s

„Repression, Sir is a habit that grows. I am told it is like making love-it is always easier the second time! The first time there may be pangs of conscience, a sense of guilt. But once embarked on this course with constant repetition you get more and more brazen in the attack. All you have to do is to dissolve organizations and societies and banish and detain the key political workers in these societies. Then miraculously everything is tranquil on the surface. Then an intimidated press and the government-controlled radio together can regularly sing your praises, and slowly and steadily the people are made to forget the evil things that have already been done, or if these things are referred to again they're conveniently distorted and distorted with impunity, because there will be no opposition to contradict.“

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Quelle: Lee Kuan Yew as an opposition PAP member speaking to David Marshall, Singapore Legislative Assembly, Debates, 4 October, 1956

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/26/world/asia/29leekuanyew-quotes.html

„He took over, and he said: 'If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.“

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Recalling how former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping dealt with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Straits Times, Aug 17, 2004
2000s

„If all the 300 (top civil servants and political elite) were to crash in one jumbo jet, then Singapore will disintegrate.“

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On how Singapore cannot afford the luxury of multiparty politics, 1975 http://books.google.com/books?id=4dE0AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA322&lpg=PA322&dq=300+were+to+crash+in+one+Jumbo+jet,+then+Singapore+will+disintegrate&source=bl&ots=8x2BWCDeVq&sig=VWl7jJHHDzDXYqLLJw39k8NrEkY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RBbsUsPvF-bSsATvuICoCA&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=300%20were%20to%20crash%20in%20one%20Jumbo%20jet%2C%20then%20Singapore%20will%20disintegrate&f=false http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1975/5/13/in-lee-kuan-yews-singapore-prosperity/#
1970s

„At the end of the day, we are so many digits in the machine. The point is – are these digits stronger than the competitors' digits?“

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MM Lee Kuan Yew on Singapore workers, History of Singapore, 2005
2000s

„With few exceptions, democracy has not brought good government to new developing countries…What Asians value may not necessarily be what Americans or Europeans value. Westerners value the freedoms and liberties of the individual. As an Asian of Chinese cultural backround, my values are for a government which is honest, effective and efficient.“

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Lee Kuan Yew in speech entitled 'Democracy, Human Rights and the Realities', Tokyo, Nov 10, 1992 http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/lee-kuan-yews-place-in-history-is-guaranteed
1990s

„Mine is a very matter-of-fact approach to the problem. If you can select a population and they're educated and they're properly brought up, then you don't have to use too much of the stick because they would already have been trained. It's like with dogs. You train it in a proper way from small. It will know that it's got to leave, go outside to pee and to defecate. No, we are not that kind of society. We had to train adult dogs who even today deliberately urinate in the lifts.“

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Lee Kuan Yew on Singapore society, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
1990s

„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.“

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Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, 20 April 1987
1980s

„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.“

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1988 National Day Rally, when he discussed the leadership transition to Goh Chok Tong in 1990. As quoted in The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia: Volume 2, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
1980s

„Three women were brought to the Singapore General Hospital, each in the same condition and needing a blood transfusion. The first, a Southeast Asian was given the transfusion but died a few hours later. The second, a South Asian was also given a transfusion but died a few days later. The third, an East Asian, was given a transfusion and survived. That is the X factor in development.“

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1967, cited in Lee Kuan Yew: race, culture and genes, Michael Barr in Journal of Contemporary Asia (01/1999)
1960s

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