What people mean by consultation is an imitation of what they see in America; pressure groups and lobby groups..It's an unthinking adoption of Western practices of development without any pruning and modification to suit our circumstances.

— Lee Kuan Yew Lee Kuan Yew The Man & His Ideas (1997)

More quotes by Lee Kuan Yew

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

On how Singapore does not need multiparty politics (1975)

Quote text and notes from Wikiquote: Lee Kuan Yew (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Source quality and labels are our own summary of what Wikiquote records.