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Telling It Like It Is
"Singapore's
PM criticizes Japan's pork-barrel politics" "In
20, 30 years' time, the whole of Singapore will be bustling away,
and your estate, through your own choice, will be left behind.
They become slums."
"Those
who won our independence believed that the final end of the state
was to make men free to develop their faculties, and that in its
government the deliberative forces should prevail over the
arbitrary. They valued liberty both as an end and as a
means..that the greatest menace to freedom
is an inert people; that public discussion is a political
duty...order cannot be secured merely through fear of punishment
for its infraction; that it is hazardous to discourage thought,
hope and imagination; that fear breeds repression; that
repression breeds hate; that hate menaces stable
government...Believing in the power of reason as applied through
public discussion, they eschewed silence coerced by law—the
argument of force in its worst form. Recognizing the occasional
tyrannies of governing majorities, they amended the Constitution
so that free speech and assembly should be guaranteed.”
Remaking a one-party dictatorship 20 Jan 06 “You
have expanded our political and economic space. Today you have
indeed remade Singapore into a kinder, gentler and more
consultative society."
Nair vs Lee 27 Dec 05 "All
the greatest leaders in the world did not grow up in a conformist
system. They were people who themselves grew in freedom. Gandhi
was a man free to follow his own conscience. Nehru, an intellect,
a liberal...And they were under the British colonial setup, which
despite its many shortcomings, left people quite free to develop
in their own way. Free development, from within and without, is
critical to the development of leaders."
Training dogs – and Singaporeans 8 Nov 05 "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."
Ke-blakang Puuuuuuuu-sing! 19 Aug 05 "If
we say that we believe in democracy, if we say that the fabric of
a democratic society is one which allows for the free play of
idea...then, in the name of all the gods, give that free play a
chance to work within the constitutional framework." "Political
reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalisation. I
do not believe that if you are libertarian, full of diverse
opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place, full of
sound and fury, therefore you will succeed."
He Said/He Said 10 Aug 05 Up
to the early 60's, they were disciplined, conservative...Since
then, both the US and Britain have seen a sharp rise in broken
families, teenage mothers, illegitimate children, juvenile
deliquency, violent crime ... This is the result of
me-first-and-society-last attitude to life. Because we uphold
tried and tested traditional values and inculcate them in our
young, we are a different society." "Overall,
the US has one of the most socially mobile societies with an open
and dynamic elite. This is the key reason why America today is
one of the most dynamic and powerful countries in the world."
Mr Goh and Mrs Goh 2 Aug 05 "A
million dollars for a minister seems a lot when compared with the
salary of a worker. But $34 million for all the ministers and
political office-holders is a tiny drop when compared with the
increase in GDP that a good government can produce..."
Most efficient election system in the world 27 Jun 05 "The
Singapore government can rightly boast of having the most
efficient system of universal suffrage in the world - the
perpetual ruling party: the People's Action Party (PAP) knows
precisely how many and which seats it will win and which two
seats will go to the opposition parties - long before the first
ballot is cast."
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