03-28-2015, 03:05 AM
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Imagine any western leader speaking like this:
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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.
Radio Interview, 1960. Quoted in South-East Asia: A Political Profile, Damien Kingsbury (2001, p. 337)
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, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
?I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.?
2000 The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew
Q: And immigration has been America?s strength.
A: Absolutely. But mind you ? immigration of the highly intelligent and highly hard-working. If you get immigration of the fruit pickers [chuckles] you may not get very far!
The Charlie Rose Show
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-I can't quantify my hatred of the State. Preferences are ordinal.
-The absolute ruler may be a Nero, but he is sometimes Titus or Marcus Aurelius; the people is often Nero, and never Marcus Aurelius.
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