Ministers Say The Darndest Things (please contribute)

[Cruxx]

Guess which statesman said this: "But nobody will be destitute, depending on soup kitchens or begging in the streets. Everyone has a home."

 

[Balls2U]

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[Lee5604]

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This picture got "inciting violence"?

Pinky and missus should be charged in court!

 

[bushtucker]

Swee Say:

"cheaper, better, faster"

"better, betterer, betterest!"

 

[LITTLEREDDOT]

Lim Swee Say: "Upturn the downturn."

 

[ginfreely]

LKY: No amount of engineering can prevent floods

 

[ginfreely]

Yacob: flood that occurs once every 50 years

 

[ginfreely]

DPM Tharman: Average S'porean won't feel the sharp effects of inflation

 

[ginfreely]

Vivian Balakrishnan:
How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant?

 

[Townair]

Vivian Balakrishnan:
How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre, food court or restaurant?

The way things are going for dependless old folks, the only way left may be plain bread and tap water. Look at hawker centre prices. Even working adults at lower wages are scraping by.

Another one from VB. After spending overbudget 4 times in YOG without any noticeable interest from public, he said it was a success and he'd do it again if there's a chance like that again.

 

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[BuiKia]

 

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“If you’re the best today, strive to be better. If you’re better today, strive to be ‘betterer’ and if you’re ‘betterer’ today, strive to be ‘betterest’ so that over time, Singapore’s service standards can just keep getting better, ‘betterer’ and ‘betterest’.” (2010)

NTUC Secretary-General Mr. Lim Swee Say and Minister without Portfolio shocked Singaporeans with his “improvisation” of the English language. He is also famous for coining the phrase “cheaper, better and faster” to exhort Singaporeans to increase their competitiveness in 2007

 

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"Suppose you had 10, 15, 20 opposition members in Parliament. Instead of spending my time thinking what is the right policy for Singapore, I'm going to spend all my time thinking what's the right way to fix them, to buy my supporters votes, how can I solve this week's problem and forget about next year's challenges?"

Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong on why Singaporeans cannot vote in too many Opposition candidates. This view contradicts Tharman's view in 2011 that a strong Opposition is good for Singapore and even the PAP. Channel NewsAsia, May 3, 2006

 

[BuiKia]

You all dun talk about my friends already....

 

[Kohliantye]

Swee Say:

"cheaper, better, faster"

"better, betterer, betterest!"

Bring my memory back to those years when those who served and left the SAF as commissioned officers could join the SPF as direct Inspectors.

Many serving police officers were frustrated about this scheme. But being a POLICY, there wasn't anything anyone could do. Bo Pian lehh...

A police report of a young lady who lost her hand-bag written by a direct Inspector (Ex-SAF) as follows: (1974)

"On (date, time and place), I use public telephone to make a call with a 10-cent to my family to tell them that I will not have dinner and that I want to shopping for Chinese people New Year and then I make the call and then I talk to my mother and then I stop and then I left the phone.

And then I find out that I have forget my hand-bag at the public phone and then I rush there and check around the viginity but cannot find it and then I come and make this report.

That is all.

Now what has the poor girl lost? Handbag or something else.

Forget about the report with its many "and then's" or redundancies.

Just look at the quality.

The worse matter, a literate junior officer had to take charge of the investigation. He told the Ex-Saf newly appointed "SPF Tua-Kow about the bad English. This was the reply he got"

" I Inspector, Who you?"

William Shakespeare sure would be turning in his grave..

 

[Getloud]

He's probably referring to his children, especially the eldest one.