A biography for Lee Hsien Loonghasn’t been written yet.
“I think every administration has a settling-in process. And there's always an adjustment between what you can say during a campaign and what you find are the possibilities and the imperatives when you win the election and you enter the Oval Office.”
“I do not owe hundreds of millions of potential foreign workers from around the world an obligation. I owe Singaporeans a responsibility.”
“We know India is very focussed on black money; it is a very high-focus subject and we have been very careful to make sure the investments into India are legitimate. There is no 'round-tripping' or hot money or bad money being funnelled through Singapore.”
“Everybody has his place; everybody is equal. Treated equally, equal standing, equal rights and status.”
“If you make a defamatory allegation that the Prime Minister is guilty of criminal misappropriation of pension funds of Singaporeans, that's a very serious matter.”
“My infrastructure must run brilliantly. My whole system must be different from what you can get anywhere else in Asia.”