A leader without the vision, to strive to improve things, is no good. Then you will just stay put, you won't progress.
Lee Kuan YewIndia is scared of the competition... because Chinese goods will go into India and compete.
Lee Kuan YewPlease do not assume that you can change governments. Young people donโt understand this.
Lee Kuan YewIf I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being done, then I would not have the slightest doubt that I could govern much more effectively in their interests.
Lee Kuan YewItโs 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 Yew