“If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.”

—  Lee Kuan Yew

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

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