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Alfrescian (InfP) + C
- Joined
- May 20, 2011
- Messages
- 13,972
- Points
- 113
" For a person who runs a million-dollar charitable organisation,
$600,000 is peanuts as it has a few hundred millions in reserves." -
Mrs Goh Chok Tong
"If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and
leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society...So
what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people
in the next generation. That's a problem." - MM Lee in 1983
"Save on one hairdo and use the money for breast screening." Lim Hng Kiang
"Only 5% are unemployed. We still have 95% who are employed." - Yeo Cheow
Tong
"Retrenchment is good for singapore. If there is no retrenchments,
then I worry." - SM Goh
"We must encourage those who earn less than $200 per month and cannot
afford to nurture and educate many children never to have more than
two... We will regret the time lost if we do not now take the first
tentative steps towards correcting a trend which can leave our society
with a large number of the physically, intellecually and culturally
anaemic." - MM Lee in 1967
"Contrary to public perception, the White Horse classification is not
to ensure that sons of influential men gets preferential treatment.
Instead it is to ensure that they do not get preferential treatment."-
Cedric Foo
"I give you an example: you put out a fun podcast, you talk about 'bak
chor mee'; I will say "mee siam mai hum", then we compete." PM Lee
Hsien
"I don't think that there should be a cap on the number of
directorship that a person can hold." - PAP MP John Chen who holds 8
directorships
.
"It's not for the money because some of the companies pay me as little
as $10,000 a year." - PAP MP Wang Kai Yuen who holds 11 directorships.
"We started off with (the name) and after looking at everything, the
name that really tugged at the heartstrings was in front of us. The
name itself is not new, but what has been used informally so far has
endeared itself to all parties." - Mah Bow Tan on the $400,000
exercise to rename Marina Bay as Marina Bay.
"Having enjoyed football as a national sport for decades, we in
Singapore have set ourselves the target of reaching the final rounds
of World Cup in 2010." - Ho Peng Kee
"I would want to form an alternative policies group in Parliament,
comprising 20 PAP MPs. These 20 PAP MPs will be free to vote in
accordance with what they think of a particular policy. In other
words, the whip for them will be lifted. This is not playing politics,
this is something which I think is worthwhile doing." - SM Goh
"If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar
Top. Some people will die as a result of liberalising bar top
dancing¡* a young girl with a short skirt dancing on it may attract
some insults from some other men, the boyfriend will start fighting
and some people will die." - Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for
Community Development, Youth and Sports
"People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside
parliament." - PM Lee
"Singaporean workers have become more expensive than those in the USA
and Australia." - Tony Tan
"No, it was not a U-turn, and neither was it a reversal of government
policy. But you can call it a rethink." - Yeo Cheow Tong
"¡*I regret making the decision because, in the end, the baby
continued to be in intensive care, and KKH now runs up a total bill of
more than $300,000¡*" - Lim Hng Kiang, regretting the decision to save
a baby's life because KKH ran up a $300,000 bill
"Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people
don't understand this" - Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, post-2006
General Elections
"How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre,
food court or restaurant?" - Dr Vivian Balakrishnan
"People could buy frozen food instead of more expensive fresh food"
"They could opt for house brand goods, which cost less than others. "
- PM Lee
"Based on figures provided by ComfortDelGro, Singapore's biggest taxi
operator, cabbies are pocketing about $11 more a day, earning about
$318." - Mr. Raymond Lim
"GST hike is to help the poor." - PM Lee
'You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of
incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put
Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together
again...and your asset values will be in peril, your security will be
at risk and our women will become maids in other people's countries,
foreign workers.'
- MM Lee - Justifying pay hikes for Singapore ministers, The Straits
Times, 5 April 2007
'This should never have happened. I am sorry that it has.' - Wong Kan Seng
Lim Swee Say:
Every month, when I receive my CPF statement, I feel so rich and the
best part is, I know the CPF money won't run away. CPF will still be
around for a long, long time to come. Not only is it earning good
interest, my capital is protected.
Leaving the best for last...
"Right now we have Low Thia Khiang, Chiam See Tong, Steve Chia. We can
deal with them. 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?"PM Lee
Hsien Loong, 3 May 2006.
AND last but not least, here's what MM Lee said in April 2007:-
........you have to pay the market rate or the man will up stakes and
join Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers or Goldman Sachs and you would
have an incompetent man and you would lost money by the
BILLIONS.....!!!!!!
--
$600,000 is peanuts as it has a few hundred millions in reserves." -
Mrs Goh Chok Tong
"If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and
leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society...So
what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people
in the next generation. That's a problem." - MM Lee in 1983
"Save on one hairdo and use the money for breast screening." Lim Hng Kiang
"Only 5% are unemployed. We still have 95% who are employed." - Yeo Cheow
Tong
"Retrenchment is good for singapore. If there is no retrenchments,
then I worry." - SM Goh
"We must encourage those who earn less than $200 per month and cannot
afford to nurture and educate many children never to have more than
two... We will regret the time lost if we do not now take the first
tentative steps towards correcting a trend which can leave our society
with a large number of the physically, intellecually and culturally
anaemic." - MM Lee in 1967
"Contrary to public perception, the White Horse classification is not
to ensure that sons of influential men gets preferential treatment.
Instead it is to ensure that they do not get preferential treatment."-
Cedric Foo
"I give you an example: you put out a fun podcast, you talk about 'bak
chor mee'; I will say "mee siam mai hum", then we compete." PM Lee
Hsien
"I don't think that there should be a cap on the number of
directorship that a person can hold." - PAP MP John Chen who holds 8
directorships
.
"It's not for the money because some of the companies pay me as little
as $10,000 a year." - PAP MP Wang Kai Yuen who holds 11 directorships.
"We started off with (the name) and after looking at everything, the
name that really tugged at the heartstrings was in front of us. The
name itself is not new, but what has been used informally so far has
endeared itself to all parties." - Mah Bow Tan on the $400,000
exercise to rename Marina Bay as Marina Bay.
"Having enjoyed football as a national sport for decades, we in
Singapore have set ourselves the target of reaching the final rounds
of World Cup in 2010." - Ho Peng Kee
"I would want to form an alternative policies group in Parliament,
comprising 20 PAP MPs. These 20 PAP MPs will be free to vote in
accordance with what they think of a particular policy. In other
words, the whip for them will be lifted. This is not playing politics,
this is something which I think is worthwhile doing." - SM Goh
"If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar
Top. Some people will die as a result of liberalising bar top
dancing¡* a young girl with a short skirt dancing on it may attract
some insults from some other men, the boyfriend will start fighting
and some people will die." - Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for
Community Development, Youth and Sports
"People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside
parliament." - PM Lee
"Singaporean workers have become more expensive than those in the USA
and Australia." - Tony Tan
"No, it was not a U-turn, and neither was it a reversal of government
policy. But you can call it a rethink." - Yeo Cheow Tong
"¡*I regret making the decision because, in the end, the baby
continued to be in intensive care, and KKH now runs up a total bill of
more than $300,000¡*" - Lim Hng Kiang, regretting the decision to save
a baby's life because KKH ran up a $300,000 bill
"Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people
don't understand this" - Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, post-2006
General Elections
"How much do you want? Do you want three meals in a hawker centre,
food court or restaurant?" - Dr Vivian Balakrishnan
"People could buy frozen food instead of more expensive fresh food"
"They could opt for house brand goods, which cost less than others. "
- PM Lee
"Based on figures provided by ComfortDelGro, Singapore's biggest taxi
operator, cabbies are pocketing about $11 more a day, earning about
$318." - Mr. Raymond Lim
"GST hike is to help the poor." - PM Lee
'You know, the cure for all this talk is really a good dose of
incompetent government. You get that alternative and you'll never put
Singapore together again: Humpty Dumpty cannot be put together
again...and your asset values will be in peril, your security will be
at risk and our women will become maids in other people's countries,
foreign workers.'
- MM Lee - Justifying pay hikes for Singapore ministers, The Straits
Times, 5 April 2007
'This should never have happened. I am sorry that it has.' - Wong Kan Seng
Lim Swee Say:
Every month, when I receive my CPF statement, I feel so rich and the
best part is, I know the CPF money won't run away. CPF will still be
around for a long, long time to come. Not only is it earning good
interest, my capital is protected.
Leaving the best for last...
"Right now we have Low Thia Khiang, Chiam See Tong, Steve Chia. We can
deal with them. 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?"PM Lee
Hsien Loong, 3 May 2006.
AND last but not least, here's what MM Lee said in April 2007:-
........you have to pay the market rate or the man will up stakes and
join Morgan Stanley, Lehman Brothers or Goldman Sachs and you would
have an incompetent man and you would lost money by the
BILLIONS.....!!!!!!
--
