More Infamous Quotes from Lee Kuan Yew
"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.” - Lee Kuan Yew (1988 National Day Rally)
"If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless." - Lee Kuan Yew, 06.10.1997
"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." - Lee Kuan Yew on Singapore society, The Man & His Ideas, 1997.
"If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it." - MM Lee Kuan Yew evoking the ghost of Deng Xiaoping whilst endorsing the Tiananmen Square massacre, Straits Times, Aug 17, 2004
"When I call a man openly, you're a liar, you're dishonest, and you do not dare to sue me, there's something basically wrong. - MM Lee Kuan Yew on James Gomez, Channelnewsasia, May 2006
"Merit over nepotism" - MM Lee Kuan Yew
"Low salaries will draw in the hypocrites who sweet talk their way into power in the name of public service, but once in charge will show their true colour, and ruin the country." - MM Lee Kuan Yew 2007, on Minister's Pay