Frases de Lee Kuan Yew

Lee Kuan Yew foi o primeiro-ministro de Singapura de 1959 a 1990.

Co-fundador e secretário-geral do Partido da Ação Popular , Lee levou o partido a uma vitória esmagadora nas eleições de 1959, coordenou a separação de Singapura da Federação da Malásia em 1965 e foi o líder nacional durante a transformação de Singapura, que passou de um entreposto colonial subdesenvolvido para ser um dos Tigres Asiáticos, com uma economia típica de Primeiro Mundo. Lee continua a ser uma das figuras políticas mais importantes do Sudeste Asiático.

Seu sucessor, Goh Chok Tong, concedeu a Lee o cargo de Ministro Sênior. No governo seguinte, do filho de Lee Kuan Yew, Lee Hsien Loong, Lee Kuan Yew assumiu o cargo de Ministro Mentor.

✵ 16. Setembro 1923 – 23. Março 2015
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Lee Kuan Yew: Frases em inglês

“… 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

“At the end of the day, if you are in Aljunied, ask yourself: Do you want one MP, one Non-Constituency MP, one celebrity who has been away 30 years, and two unknowns to look after you? Or would you prefer me and my hand-picked colleagues?”

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

“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.”

[President's Address, Debate on President's Address, Parliament of Singapore, http://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/topic.jsp?currentTopicID=00062986-ZZ&currentPubID=00069476-ZZ&topicKey=00069476-ZZ.00062986-ZZ_1%2Bid005_19850301_S0005_T00051-president-address%2B, March 01 1985, January 16 2015]
1980s

“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”

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

“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

“What if Mr Mah is unable to defend himself, he deserves to lose? No country in the world has given its citizens an asset as valuable as what we've given every family here. And if you say that policy is at fault, you must be daft.”

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

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