Singapore Quotes - Page 3

• My main mission when I became Prime Minister, was to keep Singapore going and Singapore has been kept going. So, I'm happy with what I've done for Singapore.

  Goh Chok Tong

  Moving On, Happy, Moving Forward

  Interview With Lorraine Hahn, www.nas.gov.sg. January 24, 2004.

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• It is not the practice, now will I allow subversives to get away by insisting that I’ve got to prove everything against them in a court of law or [produce] evidence that will stand up to the strict rules of evidence of a court of law.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Law, Practice, Produce

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• The tallest building in the world is now in Dubai.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Dubai, World, Ferris Wheels

  Fareed Zakaria (2011). “The Post-American World: Release 2.0 (International Edition)”, p.10, W. W. Norton & Company

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• People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside parliament.

  Lee Hsien Loong

  Cutting, People, Support

  "How Many Ministers Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb?". "The People's Authoritarian Party" with Lee Hsien Loong and Denise Phua, www.theonlinecitizen.com. October 1, 2001.

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• I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Inspiring, Men, Leader

  Lee Kuan Yew (2013). “The Wit & Wisdom of Lee Kuan Yew”, p.54, Editions Didier Millet

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• How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant?

  Vivian Balakrishnan

  Meals, Three, Want

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• With Singapore's partnership, the United States in engaging more deeply across South-east Asia and Asean, which is central to the region's peace and prosperity. Singapore is an anchor for the US presence in the region, which is a foundation of stability and peace.

  Barack Obama

  Anchors, Foundation, United States

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• I have said this on many a previous occasion: that had the mix in Singapore been different, had it been 75% Indians, 15% Malays and the rest Chinese, it would not have worked. Because they believe in the politics of contention, of opposition. But because the culture was such that the populace sought a practical way out of their difficulties, therefore it has worked.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Believe, Chinese, Different

  Debate on President's Address, Parliament of Singapore, March 01, 1985.

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• I stand by my record. I did some sharp things to get things right - too harsh - but a lot was at stake. But at the end of the day, what have I got? Just a successful Singapore.

  Mr. Lee

  Successful, The End Of The Day, Records

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• You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Stuff, Hong Kong, Tokyo

  "Anthony Bourdain’s Off-the-Menu Travel Tips". Interview with Mary Anne Potts, adventureblog.nationalgeographic.com. August 3, 2011.

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• 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

  Always Believe, Ifs, Meaningless

  "The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, 1998.

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• The decision was strictly based on my interest of living and working in Singapore. I am obligated and I will pay hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes to the American government. I already paid and I will keep paying whatever taxes I owe based on my time as a U.S. citizen.

  Eduardo Saverin

  Government, Decision, Dollars

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• Thailand has good medical care and even though I haven't tried it, Singapore is said to have high quality care also.

  Doug Rice

  Quality, Thailand, Care

  Source: www.expatarrivals.com

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• The U.S. has the finest research scientists in the world, but we are falling far behind other countries, like South Korea and Singapore, that are moving forward with embryonic stem cell research.

  Louise Slaughter

  Country, Fall, Moving Forward

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• Our success in Singapore was a Herculean effort by the whole team. Now I am determined to deliver on all we promised. I will be watching like a hawk.

  Sebastian Coe

  Team, Effort, Hawks

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• Singapore was the very first South-east Asian nation to join the global coalition against ISIL (ISIS) coalition, and we'll work to sustain our momentum in destroying that terrorist organisation.

  Barack Obama

  Isis, Asian, East

  Source: www.straitstimes.com

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• Singapore shall cease to be a state of Malaysia and shall forever be an independent and sovereign state and nation separate from and independent of Malaysia, and that the government of Malaysia recognises the government of Singapore as an independent and sovereign government of Singapore and will always work in friendship and cooperation with it.

  Tunku Abdul Rahman

  Independent, Government, Forever

  "The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, Vol. 1". Book by Lee Kuan Yew, Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd (proclamation of Singapore separation from Malaysia, August 9, 1965), 2012.

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• The biggest empty space, the biggest gap in what should be a premier and always vibrant food scene in America is that we don't have hawker centers like they do in Singapore, basically food courts where mom and pop specialists can set up shop in fairly hygienic little stalls all up to health code making one dish they've been doing forever and ever.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Mom, America, Space

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• Dubai was brilliant, they looked around the world. They saw Hong Kong, Singapore, New York, Chicago, Sydney, London all ran British common law. British common law is much better for commerce than is French common law or sharia law. So they took 110 acres of Dubai soil, put British common law with a British judge in charge, and they went from an empty piece of soil to the 16th most powerful financial center in [the] world in eight years.

  Michael Strong

  New York, Powerful, Years

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• I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.

  Lynn Collins

  Art, School, Incredibles

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm completely taken and impressed by the planning authority of Singapore and its Urban Redevelopment Authority (URA). It's the most cutting-edge agency in the world. They have very effective guidelines for development, and they review design as it evolves.

  Moshe Safdie

  Taken, Cutting, Agency

  "Toronto should be more like Singapore, Moshe Safdie says". Interview with Lisa Rochon, www.theglobeandmail.com. April 08, 2011.

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• I can only express the hope that faith in the judicial system will never be diminished, and I am sure it will not, so long as we allow a review of the judicial processes that takes place here in some other tribunal where obviously undue influence cannot be brought to bear. As long as governments are wise enough to leave alone the rights of appeal to some superior body outside Singapore, then there must be a higher degree of confidence in the integrity of our judicial process. This is most important.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Wise, Integrity, Rights

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• 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

  Inspiring, Sick, Bed

  Said at National Day Rally in 1988. "The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia: Volume 2, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries". Book edited by Nicholas Tarling, 1992.

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• Sometimes, some foreign reporters who come to Singapore to interview me, and they wonder, why we conduct Meet-the-People’s sessions at the void deck. So much for a first world nation.

  Low Thia Khiang

  People, World, Void

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• The most revolutionary aspect of technology is its mobility. Anybody can learn it. It jumps easily over barriers of race and language. ... The new technology of microchips and computer software is learned much faster than the old technology of coal and iron. It took three generations of misery for the older industrial countries to master the technology of coal and iron. The new industrial countries of East Asia, South Korea, and Singapore and Taiwan, mastered the new technology and made the jump from poverty to wealth in a single generation.

  Freeman Dyson

  Country, Science, Technology

  "Infinite in All Directions: Gifford lectures given at Aberdeen" by Freeman Dyson, (p. 270), 2004.

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