"Government's job is to intervene (CPF) where necessary. That is what
we are elected to do." - Josephine Teo
"Cutting Ministers' pay won't trim fat. You're getting a bargain for
the ministers' pay. As a surgeon, I worked half as much and made 5
times more." - Ng Eng Hen
"I can say this with a clear conscience because I have been in the
private sector and come in to government, and I will tell you squarely
in the face that you're getting a bargain for the ministers you get."
- Ng Eng Hen
"We talk about re-employment. We'd encourage, make it easier for
people to work longer and when we've successfully gone through this
transition, then the term 'retirement' will be history. I don't think
that we should think of retiring" - Lim Boon Heng
"A person should work for as long as he can." - Lim Boon Heng
" Without PAP, your mothers and sisters will be maids in other
countries" - Lee Kuan Yew
" Smarter woman produce smarter babies" - Lee Kuan Yew
" Jalan Besar is too dark, I dare not go there" - Choo wee kiang
"S'poreans need to learn how to stretch their savings" - Lim Swee Say
'It is natural that citizens should criticise the Govt. It is also
natural that citizens should praise the Govt for doing good. This is
how a healthy relation is established between the individual and the
collective.' George Yeo
"I don't want to have anybody who is 85 years old or 90 years old and
say 'my CPF finished, I have no insurance, and now I need to live. And
I have nobody to look after me' then what happens?" - Lee Hsien Loong
'You may be well-behaving, but there may be other people whom you come
across when you cycle who may stop you, may want to debate with you
and that may attract a crowd, and therefore will result in problems
the police want to avoid.' - Ho Peng Kee replying to Low Thia Khiang
'And if anybody thinks he can do better, he's welcome to take his
money and go to a fund manager and try and do better.' Lee Kuan Yew.
'The police have no intention to monitor what takes place
online...Neither should Netizens, bloggers and the many of us who
regularly send SMS messages worry.' Ho Peng Kee
"I don't think that there should be a cap on the number of
directorship that a person can hold." - PAP MP John Chen who holds 8
directorships.
"It's not for the money because some of the companies pay me as little
as $10,000 a year." - PAP MP Wang Kai Yuen who holds 11 directorships.
"If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar
Top. Some people will die as a result of liberalising bar top dancing;
a young girl with a short skirt dancing on it may attract some insults
from some other men, the boyfriend will start fighting and some people
will die." - Vivian Balakrishnan
"I would want to form an alternative policies group in Parliament,
comprising 20 PAP MPs. These 20 PAP MPs will be free to vote in
accordance with what they think of a particular policy. In other
words, the whip for them will be lifted. This is not playing politics,
this is something which I think is worthwhile doing." - SM Goh
"If you sing Jailhouse Rock with your electric guitar when others are
playing Beethoven, you are out of order. The whip must be used on
you." - SM Goh
"Save on one hairdo and use the money for breast screening." - another
gem from Lim Hng Kiang
"We started off with (the name) and after looking at everything, the
name that really tugged at the heartstrings was in front of us. The
name itself is not new, but what has been used informally so far has
endeared itself to all parties." - Mah Bow Tan on the $400,000
exercise to rename Marina Bay as Marina Bay.
"Having enjoyed football as a national sport for decades, we in
Singapore have set ourselves the target of reaching the final rounds
of World Cup in 2010." - Ho Peng Kee
"We need to teach the children the root so you can go anywhere to
study to work or even marry a (foreigner), but we still hope they keep
Singapore as a root. We still hope that they will rear their children
here." Yu-Foo Yee Shoon
"Changes are being made so Singaporeans can have more money when they
retire." - Minister Of Manpower Jan 2007
'Costs are always important but we are not going to allow costs to
prevent us from growing. You do want the standard of living of
Singaporeans to go up and a higher stand of living means more income
in real terms.' Goh Chok Tong
'The Indonesian media is a spontaneous combustion engine that responds
to what sells, what's news, what the political parties want to create
as news. then you chase the news.' - Lee Kuan Yew.
'It is natural that citizens should criticise the Govt. It is also
natural that citizens should praise the Govt for doing good. This is
how a healthy relation is established between the individual and the
collective.' George Yeo
'And if anybody thinks he can do better, he's welcome to take his
money and go to a fund manager and try and do better.' - Lee Kuan Yew.
"The opposition's plans to 'give and give' will lead to Singaporeans
having to pay higher taxes in order to foot the bill." -Lee Hsien
Loong at a rally in Tampines, in 2001.
"$2.6b 'Progress Package' for lower-income groups, elderly, NSmen" -
Lee Hsien Loong
"Contrary to public perception, the White Horse classification is not
to ensure that sons of influential men gets preferential treatment.
Instead it is to ensure that they do not get preferential treatment."
- Cedric Foo
"We are not considering a casino but an IR - an integrated resort. IRs
are quite different." - George Yeo
"The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) spends more than 80 per cent of
its funds on its beneficiaries." - Lim Hng Khiang
"Restoring the pay cuts of civil servants and ministers is reasonable
as Singapore's economy has now regained momentum." - Ng Eng Hen
"I don't think my reading for the economy is strong enough for us to
even consider asking for the restoration of the cut in CPF." - Lim
Boon Heng
"If we ever introduce anything like quotas or incentives based on
race, it will reinforce the perception that Malays and Indians have
low skills and can only get jobs because of an incentive or quota." -
Tharman Shanmugaretnam
"These schools (SAP schools) need to remain essentially Chinese to
give the edge in interacting with China..." - self contradictory
statement made by Tharman Shanmugaretnam again
"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... 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, intellecually and culturally
anaemic." - MM Lee in 1967
"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." - MM Lee in 1983
"The PAP Government has always thrived on its ability to anticipate
problems." - Wong Kan Seng
"We are not able to be everywhere as a government to know everything
in Singapore." - Lee Hsien Loong
"Right now we have Low Thia Khiang, Chiam See Tong, Steve Chia. We can
deal with them. Suppose you had 10, 15, 20 opposition members in
Parliament. Instead of spending my time thinking what is the right
policy for Singapore, I'm going to spend all my time thinking what's
the right way to fix them, to buy my supporters votes, how can I solve
this week's problem and forget about next year's challenges?" - Lee
Hsien Loong
'Back in 1984 we set, as our target, achieving a Swiss standard of
living by 1999. At the time many people were sceptical about this
ambitious goal. But we attained it last year, just one year late.' -
Lee Hsien Loong
we are elected to do." - Josephine Teo
"Cutting Ministers' pay won't trim fat. You're getting a bargain for
the ministers' pay. As a surgeon, I worked half as much and made 5
times more." - Ng Eng Hen
"I can say this with a clear conscience because I have been in the
private sector and come in to government, and I will tell you squarely
in the face that you're getting a bargain for the ministers you get."
- Ng Eng Hen
"We talk about re-employment. We'd encourage, make it easier for
people to work longer and when we've successfully gone through this
transition, then the term 'retirement' will be history. I don't think
that we should think of retiring" - Lim Boon Heng
"A person should work for as long as he can." - Lim Boon Heng
" Without PAP, your mothers and sisters will be maids in other
countries" - Lee Kuan Yew
" Smarter woman produce smarter babies" - Lee Kuan Yew
" Jalan Besar is too dark, I dare not go there" - Choo wee kiang
"S'poreans need to learn how to stretch their savings" - Lim Swee Say
'It is natural that citizens should criticise the Govt. It is also
natural that citizens should praise the Govt for doing good. This is
how a healthy relation is established between the individual and the
collective.' George Yeo
"I don't want to have anybody who is 85 years old or 90 years old and
say 'my CPF finished, I have no insurance, and now I need to live. And
I have nobody to look after me' then what happens?" - Lee Hsien Loong
'You may be well-behaving, but there may be other people whom you come
across when you cycle who may stop you, may want to debate with you
and that may attract a crowd, and therefore will result in problems
the police want to avoid.' - Ho Peng Kee replying to Low Thia Khiang
'And if anybody thinks he can do better, he's welcome to take his
money and go to a fund manager and try and do better.' Lee Kuan Yew.
'The police have no intention to monitor what takes place
online...Neither should Netizens, bloggers and the many of us who
regularly send SMS messages worry.' Ho Peng Kee
"I don't think that there should be a cap on the number of
directorship that a person can hold." - PAP MP John Chen who holds 8
directorships.
"It's not for the money because some of the companies pay me as little
as $10,000 a year." - PAP MP Wang Kai Yuen who holds 11 directorships.
"If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar
Top. Some people will die as a result of liberalising bar top dancing;
a young girl with a short skirt dancing on it may attract some insults
from some other men, the boyfriend will start fighting and some people
will die." - Vivian Balakrishnan
"I would want to form an alternative policies group in Parliament,
comprising 20 PAP MPs. These 20 PAP MPs will be free to vote in
accordance with what they think of a particular policy. In other
words, the whip for them will be lifted. This is not playing politics,
this is something which I think is worthwhile doing." - SM Goh
"If you sing Jailhouse Rock with your electric guitar when others are
playing Beethoven, you are out of order. The whip must be used on
you." - SM Goh
"Save on one hairdo and use the money for breast screening." - another
gem from Lim Hng Kiang
"We started off with (the name) and after looking at everything, the
name that really tugged at the heartstrings was in front of us. The
name itself is not new, but what has been used informally so far has
endeared itself to all parties." - Mah Bow Tan on the $400,000
exercise to rename Marina Bay as Marina Bay.
"Having enjoyed football as a national sport for decades, we in
Singapore have set ourselves the target of reaching the final rounds
of World Cup in 2010." - Ho Peng Kee
"We need to teach the children the root so you can go anywhere to
study to work or even marry a (foreigner), but we still hope they keep
Singapore as a root. We still hope that they will rear their children
here." Yu-Foo Yee Shoon
"Changes are being made so Singaporeans can have more money when they
retire." - Minister Of Manpower Jan 2007
'Costs are always important but we are not going to allow costs to
prevent us from growing. You do want the standard of living of
Singaporeans to go up and a higher stand of living means more income
in real terms.' Goh Chok Tong
'The Indonesian media is a spontaneous combustion engine that responds
to what sells, what's news, what the political parties want to create
as news. then you chase the news.' - Lee Kuan Yew.
'It is natural that citizens should criticise the Govt. It is also
natural that citizens should praise the Govt for doing good. This is
how a healthy relation is established between the individual and the
collective.' George Yeo
'And if anybody thinks he can do better, he's welcome to take his
money and go to a fund manager and try and do better.' - Lee Kuan Yew.
"The opposition's plans to 'give and give' will lead to Singaporeans
having to pay higher taxes in order to foot the bill." -Lee Hsien
Loong at a rally in Tampines, in 2001.
"$2.6b 'Progress Package' for lower-income groups, elderly, NSmen" -
Lee Hsien Loong
"Contrary to public perception, the White Horse classification is not
to ensure that sons of influential men gets preferential treatment.
Instead it is to ensure that they do not get preferential treatment."
- Cedric Foo
"We are not considering a casino but an IR - an integrated resort. IRs
are quite different." - George Yeo
"The National Kidney Foundation (NKF) spends more than 80 per cent of
its funds on its beneficiaries." - Lim Hng Khiang
"Restoring the pay cuts of civil servants and ministers is reasonable
as Singapore's economy has now regained momentum." - Ng Eng Hen
"I don't think my reading for the economy is strong enough for us to
even consider asking for the restoration of the cut in CPF." - Lim
Boon Heng
"If we ever introduce anything like quotas or incentives based on
race, it will reinforce the perception that Malays and Indians have
low skills and can only get jobs because of an incentive or quota." -
Tharman Shanmugaretnam
"These schools (SAP schools) need to remain essentially Chinese to
give the edge in interacting with China..." - self contradictory
statement made by Tharman Shanmugaretnam again
"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... 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, intellecually and culturally
anaemic." - MM Lee in 1967
"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." - MM Lee in 1983
"The PAP Government has always thrived on its ability to anticipate
problems." - Wong Kan Seng
"We are not able to be everywhere as a government to know everything
in Singapore." - Lee Hsien Loong
"Right now we have Low Thia Khiang, Chiam See Tong, Steve Chia. We can
deal with them. Suppose you had 10, 15, 20 opposition members in
Parliament. Instead of spending my time thinking what is the right
policy for Singapore, I'm going to spend all my time thinking what's
the right way to fix them, to buy my supporters votes, how can I solve
this week's problem and forget about next year's challenges?" - Lee
Hsien Loong
'Back in 1984 we set, as our target, achieving a Swiss standard of
living by 1999. At the time many people were sceptical about this
ambitious goal. But we attained it last year, just one year late.' -
Lee Hsien Loong
