Some interesting quotes from our very own Politicians...

[seiko.citizen]

How can we love a country which seeks to take but doesn't give?
love for a country from its citizens, should be mutual.

the citizens giving their best to the country, and the country giving them its best in return & thats the most ideal.

it seems like, in singapore....its always a 1 sided love affair.

Very often, i asked my father, why do HDB apartments in singapore costs so expensive when we're Singaporeans? Does the land in Singapore belong to Singaporeans? To whom does the land in Singapore belong to?

I asked my father, dad, why does mediacorp need to conduct tv shows every few months, to ask for the miserable few millions when we have got billions for our people?

With so many government officials watching the NKF tv show at the live venue over at mediacorp, why wouldn't they action on it? Why must mediacorp be tasked to help Singaporeans???!!

i asked my father, why we as Singaporeans, why can't we know how much we have in our reserves? It is our bank account..

Oh, I have asked my father those questions the answer is simple. Nothing belongs to you, it is good as being a chinese commie, therefore everything is owned by LKY i think you guys have a pretty good idea where my views lie now

[Mille]

How can we love a country which seeks to take but doesn't give?
love for a country from its citizens, should be mutual.

the citizens giving their best to the country, and the country giving them its best in return & thats the most ideal.

it seems like, in singapore....its always a 1 sided love affair.

Very often, i asked my father, why do HDB apartments in singapore costs so expensive when we're Singaporeans? Does the land in Singapore belong to Singaporeans? To whom does the land in Singapore belong to?

I asked my father, dad, why does mediacorp need to conduct tv shows every few months, to ask for the miserable few millions when we have got billions for our people?

With so many government officials watching the NKF tv show at the live venue over at mediacorp, why wouldn't they action on it? Why must mediacorp be tasked to help Singaporeans???!!

i asked my father, why we as Singaporeans, why can't we know how much we have in our reserves? It is our bank account..

[Oceanklassik]

Then the word "love" in your context is wrongly used liao. You shld use "like", since you "can't see eyes-eyes".

[Nooch]

I wasn't born in Singapore, now I am a Singaporean. I am proud to be a Singaporean and I love Singapore as much as I love my 116520....

Well I'm sure most of us love this country, just that certain things can't see eye to eye on.

[116520]

I wasn't born in Singapore, now I am a Singaporean. I am proud to be a Singaporean and I love Singapore as much as I love my 116520....

[louisoh]

The sonic boom from 3 F16s woke me from my siesta today and reminded that National Day is just around the corner. I went to the store room to look for the Singapore flag that was given to me 20 years ago. I hang the same flag every year outside my flat for the National Day celebrations.

The flag brings back many memories. Our young nation was born because we seek independence. The whole idea was simple - for ordinary Singaporeans to have a say in our own destiny. Nobody expected in those days that we will be so successful economically and that wasn't the reason why we fought so hard for independence.

I'm sure you have seen the images of Labanon being bombed in recent years on BBC and CNN. This country has been ravaged over and over again by various powers in that region. As the people were fleeing for safety from the southern Labanon, a young man with his family (wife and child) was asked if he will ever return, "He said of course". The reporter then asked him "Why? Everything has been destroyed.". "I will return because Labanon is my country", he replied.

This afternoon I took out my flag from the storeroom to hang outside. The flag was given to me by my father who saw our island progress from colony to nationhood, he reminded me to hang the flag every year. As I took the flag out from the storeroom and unfurled it, I noticed that the once pristine flag has somewhat faded.....especially the stars on the flag. I was just a toddler when my father ran my little fingers over those stars and told me each one represented an ideal that made this country worth dying for : democracy, peace, progress, justice and equality. My father told me each specific star that represented the ideals. The star that represented democracy seems most faded along with the one that represented equality and justice.

I decided not to hang my flag this year. I will honour Singapore a better flag not one that is already faded.

Wow.... nice read....

[Watch-connoisseur]

The sonic boom from 3 F16s woke me from my siesta today and reminded that National Day is just around the corner. I went to the store room to look for the Singapore flag that was given to me 20 years ago. I hang the same flag every year outside my flat for the National Day celebrations.

The flag brings back many memories. Our young nation was born because we seek independence. The whole idea was simple - for ordinary Singaporeans to have a say in our own destiny. Nobody expected in those days that we will be so successful economically and that wasn't the reason why we fought so hard for independence.

I'm sure you have seen the images of Labanon being bombed in recent years on BBC and CNN. This country has been ravaged over and over again by various powers in that region. As the people were fleeing for safety from the southern Labanon, a young man with his family (wife and child) was asked if he will ever return, "He said of course". The reporter then asked him "Why? Everything has been destroyed.". "I will return because Labanon is my country", he replied.

This afternoon I took out my flag from the storeroom to hang outside. The flag was given to me by my father who saw our island progress from colony to nationhood, he reminded me to hang the flag every year. As I took the flag out from the storeroom and unfurled it, I noticed that the once pristine flag has somewhat faded.....especially the stars on the flag. I was just a toddler when my father ran my little fingers over those stars and told me each one represented an ideal that made this country worth dying for : democracy, peace, progress, justice and equality. My father told me each specific star that represented the ideals. The star that represented democracy seems most faded along with the one that represented equality and justice.

I decided not to hang my flag this year. I will honour Singapore a better flag not one that is already faded.

[rh1667]

Thanks for sharing.

For now, i am still working hard to earn some peanut salary....guess most of us wonder how to classify our much 'lesser' than peanut amount salary.....

[Nooch]

Nice read.

Some more to add:

"If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it."


- MM Lee Kuan Yew endorsing the Tiananmen Square massacre, Straits Times, Aug 17,2004

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"If you are a troublemaker...it's our job to politically destroy you. Put it this way. As long as JB Jeyaratnam stands for what he stands for - a thoroughly destructive force - we will knock him. Everybody knows that in my bag I have a hatchet, and a very sharp one. You take me on, I take my hatchet, we meet in the cul-de-sac."


- SM Lee Kuan Yew, The Man And His Ideas, 1997

[exxondus]

wah nice read.

thanks for sharing

[louisoh]

“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. (This is really insulting our intelligence)

“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 Loong (How profound)

“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
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“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

“Without 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.” - MM Lee Kuan Yew

“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

“‘I mean, we are different. This was a lapse, what to do, it’s happened.” - 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.


All the above info/quotes were obtained from Souce: http://civicadvocator.net/famous-quo...million-leader