“Aren’t you a bit annoyed because I don’t crawl to you?”
J B Jeyaretnam to Lee Kuan Yew, during a parliamentary committee meeting in 1985.
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“I will make him crawl on his bended knees, and beg for mercy.”
- Lee Kuan Yew on J. B. Jeyaretnam, as reported by Devan Nair, 1981
“If you are a troublemaker…it’s our job to politically destroy you. Put it this way. As long as JB Jeyaretnam 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.”
- Lee Kuan Yew, The Man And His Ideas, 1997
“Anybody who decides to take me on needs to put on knuckle-dusters. If you think you can hurt me more than I can hurt you, try. There is no way you can govern a Chinese society.”
- Lee Kuan Yew, The Man and His Ideas, 1997
“If we had considered them serious political figures, we would not have kept them politically alive for so long. We could have bankrupt them earlier.”
- Lee Kuan Yew on political opposition, Straits Times, Sept 14 2003
“Please remember we do not pretend to be virtuous. Hypocrisy is not a feature of Singapore’s leadership.”
- Lee Kuan Yew, closing speech to the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, Singapore, January 22, 1971
http://leewatch.info/quotes/
Wow!!…………So scary!!!
He talked like a gangster. Really, A BIG BULLY. No wonder we are
suffering, for not wanting to crawl to him.
Must have dedicated and compassionate man like JBJ to stand up to him.
We should all stand united and VOTE OUT THE PAP!!!!
His books reveals more of the character of the man than his achievements (which is advertised at every possible moment). As pointed out by many, humility and humbleness is not in his vocabulary. Recent evidence seem to suggest that he was brilliant in using anyone to achieve his objective and did not hesitate to destroy them later, when they become a threat and refused to crawl to him.
Political gangster
Would LTK do the same in Parliament to his son?
He didn’t even dare to answer him about WKS over the Mas Selamat’s
issue.
Sorry, not out to bash the WP leader, but to highlight how far worse off
we have in opposition representation in Parliament since JBJ.
things will improve when there are more opposition
Oh! Hahaha, taunting MM Lee!