Lee Hsien Loong Quotes

Singaporean - Politician | February 10, 1952 -

No country can be an island unto itself or world unto itself. Not even the biggest country.

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Overall, we think religion is a good thing. I mean, if we were godless society, we would have many other problems; the communists found that out.

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Criticism, any amount, we welcome it. Come, let's have a discussion - in Parliament, all the better.

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WelcomeCriticismBetterDiscussion

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.

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I don't have farmers I can convert into factory workers.

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You have an administration which understands America's international responsibilities and interests, but you have a population which is anxious, tired, and doesn't want to bear any burden and pay any price. And that's very difficult for whoever becomes president.

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For trade to grow, India must make a strategic decision that you want to encourage interdependence and more openness and more trade-based economy.

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DecisionGrowYouIndiaWantMore

I think if you look at the Singapore projects, we wanted to do industrial parks. They have taken very long to clear the issues of land, and these become politicised, and you can't settle it, and eventually the project languishes and nothing happens.

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We do have to watch to see how the foreign workers and immigrants are fitting in with our community, and you have to watch them mix so that you don't overbalance the numbers or the tone of our society.

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There will always be frictions when you have a foreign worker population or immigrant population in the country, and we have to manage that, and that requires good behaviour and adjustment both on the part of the foreign workers and the immigrants as well as on the part of the Singaporeans.

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GoodYouImmigrantsCountryWill

If we have no foreign workers, our economy suffers; our own lives suffer.

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I do not owe hundreds of millions of potential foreign workers from around the world an obligation. I owe Singaporeans a responsibility.

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