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"For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories."
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🇸🇬Lee Kuan Yew
Politics
1923–2015
"For me, it is a moment of anguish. All my life, my whole adult life, I believed in merger and unity of the two territories."
73 quotes
🇸🇬Sinnathamby Rajaratnam
Politics
1915–2006
"Singapore run only by PhDs would be my vision of a purgatory. Equally, a government run by roadsweepers can be no less a terrifying place to live in."
11 quotes
🇸🇬Lee Hsien Loong
Politics
b. 1952
"If you calculate the price of everything in this world, you will miss out on the real important things."
8 quotes
🇸🇬Suffian Hakim
Philosophy
b. 1986
3 quotes
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🇸🇬Antonio L. Rappa
Education
"The natural evolution of American politics has resulted in the gross engulfment of the American polity by the military industrial complex."
3 quotes
🇸🇬Goh Chok Tong
Politics
b. 1941
1 quotes
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"Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it"
— Lee Kuan Yew, b. 1923View →
"Look, Jeyaretnam can't win the infighting. I'll tell you why. WE are in charge. Every government ministry and department is under our control. And in the infighting, he will go down for the count every time... I will make him crawl on his bended knees, and beg for mercy."
— Lee Kuan Yew, b. 1923View →
"If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent."
— Lee Kuan Yew, b. 1923View →
"… If you can't think because you can't chew, try a banana"
— Lee Kuan Yew, b. 1923View →
"That was the year the British decided to get out and sell everything. So I immediately held an election. I knew the people will be dead scared. And I won my bet big-time."
— Lee Kuan Yew, b. 1923View →