Archive for the ‘Quotes’ Category
Lee Kuan Yew lectures Russia once again. CNA: Mr Lee told business leaders that he found support for the top brass lacking in Russia. He said: “Yes you have top engineers, top scientists, top researchers, grand chess masters, but your middle layer and your bottom layer is not so well maximised, (regarding) their potential.” One […]
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Tags: education, infrastructure, lee kuan yew, russia, singapore
Lee Kuan Yew never hesitates to dole out advice. CNA: Singapore’s Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has met Russian President Dmitri Medvedev on the third anniversary of the establishment of the Moscow School of Management Skolkovo, Russia’s first business school. Minister Mentor Lee, who is on the school’s advisory board, also addressed students and told […]
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Tags: dmitri medvedev, lee kuan yew, russia, skolkovo
Friends and foes meet
Lee Kuan Yew at the Men in White book launch. Straits Times: IT WAS a historic moment with friends and foes gathered together under the same roof where they last met more than four decades ago – at the Old Parliament House. The occasion was the launch of a new book on the People’s Action […]
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Tags: lee kuan yew, men in white, operation coldstore, people's action party
Notice: New quotes
The Quotes page on LEEWATCH has been updated, with several new quotes by Lee Kuan Yew and a new section for quotes about LKY by other people. Please add interesting new quotes, with sources, to the comments. LEEWATCH
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Lee’s first major speech in a while, tackling not the economic crisis, but the challenge of keeping up Singapore’s population (with a few heavy hints about the Chinese needing to breed more) and integrating immigrants. CNA: SINGAPORE: Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew has highlighted two challenges for Singapore to undertake in order to do well […]
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Tags: adaptation, foreign workers, immigration, integration, mandarin, permanent residents
Racial harmony is not a given
Lee Kuan Yew goes off messages — is this why no video footage is available? Straits Times: Speaking at the National Orange Ribbon Celebrations in Bishan, MM Lee told the crowd he would dispense with the speech prepared for him by one of the ministries. The Minister Mentor went on to speak passionately for half […]
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Tags: lee kuan yew, national orange ribbon, racial harmony
Lee Kuan Yew on Changi, complete with obligatory dig at foreign experts. CNA: Speaking at the launch of the newly restructured Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) and the Changi Airport Group on Wednesday, Mr Lee – who was instrumental in developing Changi as an aviation hub – noted that the economic crisis has seriously […]
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Tags: aviation, changi, changi airport group, lee kuan yew, temasek
Lee Kuan Yew speaks out after the first half of his Malaysia trip. CNA: Mr Lee said no private investor would go into huge projects like Iskandar Malaysia and the proposed third bridge linking Singapore and Johor unless there is long-term stability in policy. Mr Lee, who kicked off his week-long visit to Malaysia in […]
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Tags: iskandar, lee kuan yew, Malaysia, najib razak, opposition, singapore, third bridge
Lee Kuan Yew Watch 
MM on Singapore’s system
Catherine Lim’s point-black question to Lee Kuan Yew at the recent dialogue is raising some waves. AsiaOne has his answer in full: Catherine Lim: “Sir, in the event of a serious threat of a freak election, would you do the unthinkable, that is, send in the army?” Lee Kuan Yew: “You look at our record […]
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Tags: army, catherine lim, freak election, lee kuan yew