Itโs irrelevant to me what young Singaporeans think of me. What they think of me after Iโm dead and gone in one generation will be determined by researchers who do PhDs on me, right? So there will be a lot of revisionism. As people revised Stalin, Brezhnev and one day now Yeltsin, and later on Putin. Iโve lived long enough to know that you may be idealised in life and reviled after youโre dead.
Lee Kuan YewWhat I fear is complacency. When things always become better, people tend to want more for less work.
Lee Kuan YewWithout 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.
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