"Supposing Catherine Lim was writing critically about me and not the prime minister...She would not dare to do it. Because my posture, my response has been such that nobody doubts that if you take me on, I will put on knuckle-dusters and catch you in a cul de sac... Anybody who decides to take me, if you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, just try." - SM Lee Kuan Yew, The Man and His Ideas, 1997
"Look, Jeyaretnam cant 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." - Lee Kuan Yew to former President C. V. Devan Nair
"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, 6.10.1997
"If I want to fix you, do I need the Chief Justice to fix you? Everybody knows that in my bag I have a hatchet, and a very sharp one. You take me on, I take my hatchet, we meet in the cul-de-sac." - SM Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
"If I have to shoot to death 200,000 student protesters to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it." - Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew evoking the ghost of Deng Xiaoping in endorsing the Tiananmen Square massacre, Straits Times, Aug 17, 2004
"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 for this lot of people for whom nothing is good enough? I will have a house in Perth or Vancouver or Sydney, or an apartment in London, and think about whether I go on to America." - SM Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
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