Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, Aug 17, 2004
2000s
Famous Lee Kuan Yew Quotes
Lee Kuan Yew, Interview with Nathan Gardels of Global Viewpoint, Sept 26 1995 http://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/data/pdfdoc/017-1995-09-26.pdf
1990s
assessment on the alternative Workers' Party candidates contesting in the Aljunied GRC for General Elections 2011 (Yahoo News, April 30, 2011, http://sg.news.yahoo.com/aljunied-voters-will-regret-choosing-wp--mm-lee.html)
2010s
“… If you can't think because you can't chew, try a banana”
2000. Lee was responding to a BBC reporter who suggested that Singapore's draconian laws (including the ban on chewing gum) could stifle the people's creativity. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/820234.stm
2000s
Opposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Legislative Assembly Debates, Sept 21, 1955
1950s
SM Lee Kuan Yew, Reuters, Jun 6, 1996, which sparked a flurry of protests from Burmese students.
1990s
Lee Kuan Yew Quotes about people
[Barr, Michael D., Lee Kuan Yew: Race, Culture and Genes, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 1999, 29 2, 147, https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5058/d1bc358fe18944e8aaa399e422f74d0fed75.pdf]
1980s
Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
1990s
Lee Kuan Yew in the Parliament of Malaysia, 1965 http://maddruid.com/?p=645
1960s
National Day Rally, 1983. Cited in The Coming Population Crash: And Our Planet's Surprising Future, Fred Pearce
1980s
Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
1990s
Justifying million-dollar pay hike for Singapore ministers (Straits Times, 5 April 2007)
2000s
Lee Kuan Yew Quotes about thinking
from his book 'Lee Kuan Yew: Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going' (Asia One, March 08 2011 http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20110308-267055.html)
2010s
SM Lee Kuan Yew, The Man and His Ideas, 1997 http://books.google.com/books?id=ljOkLtGgIQYC&dq=Supposing+Catherine+Lim+was+writing+about+me+and+not+the+prime+minister..&source=gbs_navlinks_s
1990s
Speech at Fullerton Square dissing Chiam See tong, 19 December 1984 http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article/straitstimes19841220-1.2.32.5.aspx
1980s
Lee Kuan Yew (in 1964 or 1965), — Ye, Lin-Sheng (2003). The Chinese Dilemma, p. 43. East West Publishing. ISBN 0-9751646-1-9.
1960s
SM Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
1990s
The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, 1998, as quoted by http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-05-24/tech/30081331_1_singaporean-lee-kuan-yew-political-landscape
1990s
Lee Kuan Yew: Trending quotes
Lee Kuan Yew, Legislative Assembly Debates, April 27, 1955
1950s
Rally in 1980, related to the then-ongoing Singapore Airlines pilot strikes due to salary issue http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32012346
1980s
Address To The General Assembly Of The International Press Institute At Helsinki Wednesday, 9th June, 1971 http://journalism.sg/lee-kuan-yews-1971-speech-on-the-press/
1970s
Lee Kuan Yew Quotes
SM Lee Kuan Yew, Speech to the National Trade Union Congress at the Singapore Conference Hall, 19 July 1996 https://fcpp.org/pdf/SPEECH%20BY%20MR%20LEE%20KUAN%20YEW%202004.pdf
1990s
[President's Address, Debate on President's Address, Parliament of Singapore, http://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/topic.jsp?currentTopicID=00062986-ZZ¤tPubID=00069476-ZZ&topicKey=00069476-ZZ.00062986-ZZ_1%2Bid005_19850301_S0005_T00051-president-address%2B, March 01 1985, January 16 2015]
1980s
Lee Kuan Yew in the Parliament of Malaysia, 1965 http://www.jeffooi.com/archives/2005/11/i_went_into_act.php
1960s
MM Lee Kuan Yew on what would happen if a profligate opposition government touched Singapore's vast monetary reserves, "Lee Kuan Yew defends PAP's Political Dominance", Reuters, 16 September 2006
2000s
The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, 1998
1990s
Radio Interview, 1960. Quoted in South-East Asia: A Political Profile, Damien Kingsbury (2001, p. 337)
1960s
Lee Kuan Yew in the Parliament of Malaysia, 1965 http://maddruid.com/?p=645
1960s
Lee Kuan Yew, Before Singapore's independence, Malaysian Parliamentary Debates, Dec 18, 1964
1960s
Interview with the New York Times, September 2010 http://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/data/pdfdoc/20100920006/transcript_of_minister_mentor_lee_kuan_yew.pdf
2010s
Asian Wall Street Journal, Oct 21 1985
1980s
“Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.”
MM Lee Kuan Yew, after 2006 Elections http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/singapore-tries-to-imagine-a-future-without-lee-kuan-yew/2015/03/18/b12acc7c-cbe7-11e4-8730-4f473416e759_story.html
2000s
“If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.”
Lee Kuan Yew, in a wry aside to critics who have accused him of governing Singapore like a nanny state, From Third World to First, The Singapore Story: 1965-2000, Lee Kuan Yew. 2000)
2000s
SM Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
1990s
SM Lee Kuan Yew, The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, 1998
1990s
On one election result in Singapore, in Straits Times (26 June 2008), and "Opposition would ruin Singapore: Lee Kuan Yew" in AFP report at Google News (26 June 2008) http://web.archive.org/web/20080630100140/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hO5GOaqrgGNspmaeLjs7LFRH6Fsw
2000s
On how history will assess him, in Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going, 2011
2010s
1986 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/23/us-singapore-leekuanyew-idUSKBN0MI08Y20150323
1980s
when asked about a Straits Times report that cited keen opposition interest in contesting Tampines GRC, which National Development Minister Mah Bow Tan helms, so that they can raise the affordability of public housing as an election issue. Prime Minister's Office, January 28 2010 http://www.pmo.gov.sg/content/pmosite/mediacentre/inthenews/ministermentor/2010/January/fewer_foreign_workersinfiveyearssaysmm.html
2010s
SM Lee Kuan Yew, Success Stories, 2002
2000s
The Search for Talent, 12 August 1982 http://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/speeches/record-details/73eb9163-115d-11e3-83d5-0050568939ad
1980s
Address To The General Assembly Of The International Press Institute At Helsinki Wednesday, 9th June, 1971 http://journalism.sg/lee-kuan-yews-1971-speech-on-the-press/
1970s
“I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.”
(quoted in Milne and Mauzy 1990, p. 85) http://books.google.com/books?id=gzdbfu55IGgC&pg=PA10&lpg=PA10&dq=I+make+no+apologies+that+the+PAP+is+the+Government+and+the+Government+is+the&source=bl&ots=S0zsvGrdSE&sig=BdKP_Lx7rh0f0xG6Y0dmn8TgGWc&hl=en&sa=X&ei=lNjuUqqGD8PlsATSi4DACw&ved=0CCcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=I%20make%20no%20apologies%20that%20the%20PAP%20is%20the%20Government%20and%20the%20Government%20is%20the&f=false
1980s
Opposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore Legislative Assembly, Oct 4, 1956
1950s
On accepting foreign talent (Straits Times, 22 April 2007)
2000s
Opposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, May 5, 1959
1950s
Abortion Bill (As reported from Select Committee), 29 Dec 1969. Singapore Parliament Reports http://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/topic.jsp?currentTopicID=00054060-ZZ¤tPubID=00069213-ZZ&topicKey=00069213-ZZ.00054060-ZZ_1%2Bid015_19691229_S0003_T00031-bill%2B
1960s
“If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.”
warning voters in Aljunied GRC on the consequence of voting for the alternative Workers' Party, which the PAP eventually lost to. (Yahoo News, April 30, 2011, http://sg.news.yahoo.com/aljunied-voters-will-regret-choosing-wp--mm-lee.html)
2010s
SM Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, September 19, 1999 on Malays in the Singapore Armed Forces
1990s
Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
1990s
MM Lee Kuan Yew on James Gomez, Channelnewsasia, May 2006
2000s
Lee Kuan Yew, Interview with Fareed Zakaria of Foreign Policy, 1994 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/asia/1994-03-01/conversation-lee-kuan-yew
1990s
On tweaking the one-man one-vote system after losing 2 seats to non-PAP Candidates, The Straits Times, 24 December 1984 http://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/newspapers/Digitised/Article.aspx?articleid=straitstimes19841224-1.2.2
1980s
Lee Kuan Yew in the Parliament of Malaysia, 1965 http://www.jeffooi.com/archives/2005/11/i_went_into_act.php
1960s
“There is a conspiracy to do us in. Why?… They see us as a threat to the rest of Singapore.”
on why Human Rights Groups criticise Singapore's governance (Agence France-Presse, July 12 2008, http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=124971)
2000s
1967, cited in Lee Kuan Yew: race, culture and genes, Michael Barr in Journal of Contemporary Asia (01/1999)
1960s
1988 National Day Rally, when he discussed the leadership transition to Goh Chok Tong in 1990. As quoted in The Cambridge History of Southeast Asia: Volume 2, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
1980s
Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, 20 April 1987
1980s
Lee Kuan Yew on Singapore society, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
1990s
Lee Kuan Yew in speech entitled 'Democracy, Human Rights and the Realities', Tokyo, Nov 10, 1992 http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/lee-kuan-yews-place-in-history-is-guaranteed
1990s
MM Lee Kuan Yew on Singapore workers, History of Singapore, 2005
2000s
On how Singapore cannot afford the luxury of multiparty politics, 1975 http://books.google.com/books?id=4dE0AAAAQBAJ&pg=PA322&lpg=PA322&dq=300+were+to+crash+in+one+Jumbo+jet,+then+Singapore+will+disintegrate&source=bl&ots=8x2BWCDeVq&sig=VWl7jJHHDzDXYqLLJw39k8NrEkY&hl=en&sa=X&ei=RBbsUsPvF-bSsATvuICoCA&ved=0CDAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=300%20were%20to%20crash%20in%20one%20Jumbo%20jet%2C%20then%20Singapore%20will%20disintegrate&f=false http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1975/5/13/in-lee-kuan-yews-singapore-prosperity/#
1970s
Recalling how former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping dealt with the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, Straits Times, Aug 17, 2004
2000s
Source: Lee Kuan Yew as an opposition PAP member speaking to David Marshall, Singapore Legislative Assembly, Debates, 4 October, 1956
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/03/26/world/asia/29leekuanyew-quotes.html
August 9, 1965, when Lee announced the separation of Singapore from Malaysia, as quoted in The Theatre and the State in Singapore: Orthodoxy and Resistance, Terence Chong
1960s
1981, as recounted by former President C. V. Devan Nair, as quoted in Beyond suspicion?: the Singapore judiciary, Francis T. Seow http://www.singapore-window.org/sw99/90321dn.htm
1980s
[Wong, Theresa, Brenda Yeoh, Fertility and the Family: An Overview of Pro-natalist Population Policies in Singapore, ASIAN METACENTRE RESEARCH PAPER SERIES, 2003, 12, http://www.populationasia.org/Publications/RP/AMCRP12.pdf]
1980s
Lee Kuan Yew on Lee Hsien Loong, Straits Times, Jun 22, 2004
2000s
On winning 88% of the votes in 1968 (actual share was 84.43%), The Straits Times, March 7, 2007
2000s
statement that he stands corrected on how well-integrated Malay-Muslims are in Singapore (Asia One, March 08, 2011 http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Singapore/Story/A1Story20110308-267055.html)
2010s