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How does the Malay in the kampong find his way out into this modernised civil society? By becoming servants of the 0.3 per cent who would have the money to hire them to clean their shoe, open their motorcar doors?

— Lee Kuan Yew

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India is a creation of the British Raj and the railway system it built, and therefore it has its limitations.

Lew Kuan Yew answers people in India during the South Asian Diaspora Convention (2011)

If Aljunied decides to go that way, well Aljunied has five years to live and repent.

If all the 300 (top civil servants and political elite) were to crash in one jumbo jet, then Singapore will disintegrate.

On how Singapore does not need multiparty politics (1975)

He took over, and he said: 'If I have to shoot 200,000 students to save China from another 100 years of disorder, so be it.'

If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.

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