Lee kuan yew quotes sayings
1. "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."
2. "I have never been overconcerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader."
3. "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."
4. "I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do. At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life."
5. "I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honorable purpose."
6. "I am not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honorable purpose."
7. "I always tried to be correct, not politically correct."
8. "I am often asked whether I am a Chinese or a Westerner. To this I always reply, I am a Singaporean. I do not think we need to choose between being Chinese, Western or Singaporean. We can be all three."
9. "The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly. And this is not easy to achieve."
10. "I have never been overconcerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader."
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