Lee Yew Quotations

I was at South Africa at the time in Johannesburg. We knew he was going in for a medical check for his Colon. They found polyps but they said it was benign but they wanted to do a biopsy.

Look at the numbers and quality of the engineers and scientists they produce and you know that this is where the R&D will be done. The Chinese have a space program, they are going to put a man on the moon and nobody sold them that technology.

Well, I think if I had married a different woman I would of had a very different life. She was my partner both emotionally and intellectually. At work and at play and she brought up the 3 children that we have, brought them up to be well behaved, modest and not over-bearing children.

Well, first you must be temperamentally suited, and there must be constant adjustment and give and take. I mean no marriages are made in heaven.

Yes, we knew that sooner or later, with the build up in the Philippines, in Indonesia and after the KKM arrests in Malaysia that they were bound to penetrate us.

We have disrupted their network in Singapore, ... But the key leaders are at large in the region.

I want a world-class opposition, not a riff-raff.

It's a law which is approved of by Singapore's inhabitants and which allows us to reduce the drug problem,

Economically, there will be a shift to the Pacific from the Atlantic Ocean and you can already see that in the shipping volumes of Chinese ports.

I learnt how people survived and how people had to submit because you need to eat and your family need to live, so I learned the meaning of power. In a sense that power comes out in the barrel of a gun and when the Japanese gun was not as big as the American gun they surrendered and the British came back.

I'm not as active as before; but enough to fight an election.