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„Меня часто обвиняют в том, что я вмешиваюсь в частную жизнь граждан. Да если бы я не делал этого, мы бы не добились того, чего мы смогли добиться на сегодняшний день. И я говорю без намека на сожаление, что мы не добились бы такого экономического прогресса, если бы я не вмешивался в личные дела. Кто ваш сосед, как вы живете, почему вы шумите, как вы плюете и на каком языке вы говорите - мы решаем, что правильно. Неважно, что думают люди.“

„Даже находясь на смертном одре, даже если вы попробуете загнать меня в могилу и я почувствую, что что-то идет не так, я встану. Те, кто считают, что после того как я покинул правительство в качестве премьер-министра, я выйду на пенсию до конца жизни, должны провериться у врача.“

„Я никогда не понимал, почему западные педагоги так решительно выступают против телесных наказаний. Ни мне, ни моим одноклассникам они вреда не нанесли.“

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„Я не верю в любовь с первого взгляда. Я считаю это большой ошибкой. Тебя влекут физические характеристики, а потом ты сожалеешь об этом.“

„Хотите побороть коррупцию?> Начните с того, что посадите трёх своих друзей. Вы точно знаете за что, и они знают за что.“

„Скажу прямо: если бы мы не последовали хорошим примерам на Западе, мы бы не преодолели свою отсталость — как экономическую, так и социальную. Но целиком копировать Запад мы не станем.“

приписывается Источник: Forbes.kz, Борейко В., Как рыбацкая деревушка стала экономическим драконом, 2013-04-06 http://forbes.kz/travels/kak_ryibatskaya_derevnya_stala_ekonomicheskim_drakonom_1,

„Начните с того, что посадите трёх своих друзей. Вы точно знаете за что, и они знают за что.“

„В отличие от коммунистической системы, русские - не те люди, которых можно выбросить на свалку истории.“

„Михаилу Горбачеву следовало насторожиться, когда средства массовой информации враждебных государств стали хвалить его, вместо этого он следовал их увещеваниям и вызвал распад страны… так как ЦРУ могло только мечтать.“

„Если бы я не был премьер-министром, он мог бы стать премьер-министром на несколько лет раньше. Не в моих интересах допускать на важные посты неспособных членов моей семьи, потому что это будет катастрофой для Сингапура и для моего наследия. Этого позволять нельзя.“

„Вы знаете сингапурцев. Это трудолюбивые, энергичные, твердые люди. Иначе мы не сдали бы экзамен. Но давайте также признаем, что сингапурцы великие ворчуны.“

„Если ты поверил в демократию, твоя вера должна быть безусловной. Если ты веришь, что человек должен быть свободным, то предоставь ему свободу собраний, свободу слова, свободу публикаций.“

„Американцы великие миссионеры. У них неудержимое стремление обращать всех в свою веру.“

„Мы прагматики. Пробуем и, если получается, продолжаем. Не получается — отбрасываем этот подход и пробуем другой. Мы не привязаны ни к одной идеологии.“

„Необходимо интересно представить ваше дело, тогда люди будут вас слушать.“

„Почивать на лаврах? Хотелось бы, но не могу. Нет, почивать будем, когда умрем.“

„Я всегда старался говорить правду, а не следить за политической корректностью.“

„Даже со своей больничной койки, даже если вы опустите меня в могилу, и я почувствую, что что-то не так, я встану.“

„Сидеть на скамье удобнее и безопаснее, чем на складном стульчике, не так ли? Сейчас мы сидим на складном стульчике, и я твердо намерен усидеть на нем. Ведь если 214 квадратных миль – это все, чем мы располагаем, то в наших силах сделать этот стульчик надежным и прочным. Вы видели Сингапур и его жителей? Наш стульчик выкован из стали.“

„Я всегда старался быть корректным, но не политкорректным.“

„Если Сингапур – это государство-нянька, то я горжусь тем, что воспитал его таким.“

„Я побывал (в Бирме) и знаю, что есть только один инструмент правительства, и это армия ... Если бы я был Аунг Сан Су Чжи, я бы предпочел быть за забором и быть символом, чем после двух или три года, быть найденным бессильным.“

Этот перевод ждет рассмотрения. Правильный ли перевод?

„Мы использовали те преимущества, которые Великобритания оставила нам: английский язык, юридическую систему, администрацию, лишённую партийных пристрастий. Мы тщательно избегали использования методов, свойственных социальному государству, потому что видели, как великий британский народ в результате социалистической уравниловки превратился в посредственный.“

“Political reform need not go hand in hand with economic liberalisation. I do not believe that if you are libertarian, full of diverse opinions, full of competing ideas in the market place, full of sound and fury, therefore you will succeed.”

Источник: А. Пикуленко. БОЛЬШОЕ ОКНО СИНГАПУРА http://www.timetolive.ru/p/42010/oknosingapura/ // Время жить вместе. — 2010. — апрель.

Ли Куан Ю: Цитаты на английском языке

“And now in America itself after 30 years of experimenting with the Great Society programmes, there is widespread crime and violence, children kill each other with guns, neigbourhoods are insecure, old people feel forgotten, families are falling apart. And the media attacks the integrity and character of your leaders with impunity, drags down all those in authority and blames everyone but itself.”

Minister Mentor Lee Kuan Yew, Straits Times, Aug 17, 2004
2000s

“But we either believe in democracy or we don't. If we do, then, we must say categorically, without qualification, that no restraint from the any democratic processes, other than by the ordinary law of the land, should be allowed… If you believe in democracy, you must believe in it unconditionally. If you believe that men should be free, then, they should have the right of free association, of free speech, of free publication. Then, no law should permit those democratic processes to be set at nought, and no excuse, whether of security, should allow a government to be deterred from doing what it knows to be right, and what it must know to be right…”

Lee Kuan Yew, Interview with Nathan Gardels of Global Viewpoint, Sept 26 1995 http://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/data/pdfdoc/017-1995-09-26.pdf 1990s

“If it is not totalitarian to arrest a man and detain him, when you cannot charge him with any offence against any written law - if that is not what we have always cried out against in Fascist states - then what is it?… If we are to survive as a free democracy, then we must be prepared, in principle, to concede to our enemies - even those who do not subscribe to our views - as much constitutional rights as you concede yourself.”

Lee Kuan Yew, Legislative Assembly Debates, April 27, 1955
1950s

“I have visited (Burma) and I know that there is only one instrument of government, and that is the army…If I were Aung San Suu Kyi, I think I'd rather be behind a fence and be a symbol than after two or three years, be found impotent.”

Opposition leader Lee Kuan Yew, Legislative Assembly Debates, Sept 21, 1955
1950s

“… If you can't think because you can't chew, try a banana”

SM Lee Kuan Yew, Reuters, Jun 6, 1996, which sparked a flurry of protests from Burmese students.
1990s

“Freedom of the press, freedom of the news media, must be subordinated to the overriding needs of the integrity of Singapore, and to the primacy of purpose of an elected government.”

2000. Lee was responding to a BBC reporter who suggested that Singapore's draconian laws (including the ban on chewing gum) could stifle the people's creativity. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/820234.stm 2000s

“At the end of the day, if you are in Aljunied, ask yourself: Do you want one MP, one Non-Constituency MP, one celebrity who has been away 30 years, and two unknowns to look after you? Or would you prefer me and my hand-picked colleagues?”

Address To The General Assembly Of The International Press Institute At Helsinki Wednesday, 9th June, 1971 http://journalism.sg/lee-kuan-yews-1971-speech-on-the-press/ 1970s

“Malays abhor the state of celibacy. To remain unmarried was and is considered shameful. Everyone must be married at some time or other. The result is that whether a person is fit or unfit for marriage, he or she still marries and reproduces. An idiot or a simpleton is often married off to an old widower, ostensibly to take care of him in his old age. If this is not possible, backward relatives are paired off in marriage. These people survive, reproduce and propagate their species. The cumulative effect of this can be left to the imagination.”

assessment on the alternative Workers' Party candidates contesting in the Aljunied GRC for General Elections 2011 (Yahoo News, April 30, 2011, http://sg.news.yahoo.com/aljunied-voters-will-regret-choosing-wp--mm-lee.html) 2010s

“I started off believing all men were equal. I now know that's the most unlikely thing ever to have been, because millions of years have passed over evolution, people have scattered across the face of this earth, been isolated from each other, developed independently, had different intermixtures between races, peoples, climates, soils… I didn't start off with that knowledge. But by observation, reading, watching, arguing, asking, that is the conclusion I've come to.”

[Barr, Michael D., Lee Kuan Yew: Race, Culture and Genes, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 1999, 29 2, 147, https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/5058/d1bc358fe18944e8aaa399e422f74d0fed75.pdf]
1980s

“Whoever governs Singapore must have that iron in him. Or give it up. This is not a game of cards! This is your life and mine! I've spent a whole lifetime building this and as long as I'm in charge, nobody is going to knock it down.”

Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
1990s

“What role would men and governments in new countries like the mass media to play?… The mass media can help to present Singapore's problems simply and clearly and then explain how if they support certain programmes and policies these problems can be solved. More important, we want the mass media to reinforce, not to undermine, the cultural values and social attitudes being inculcated in our schools and universities.”

Rally in 1980, related to the then-ongoing Singapore Airlines pilot strikes due to salary issue http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-32012346 1980s

“Ministers who deal with billions of dollars cannot be paid low salaries without risking a system malfunction. Low salaries will not attract able men who are or can be successful in their professions or business. Low salaries will draw in the hypocrites who sweet talk their way into power in the name of public services, but once in charge will show their true colour, and ruin the country. This has happened in many countries.”

Address To The General Assembly Of The International Press Institute At Helsinki Wednesday, 9th June, 1971 http://journalism.sg/lee-kuan-yews-1971-speech-on-the-press/ 1970s

“I have said this on many a previous occasion: that had the mix in Singapore been different, had it been 75% Indians, 15% Malays and the rest Chinese, it would not have worked. Because they believe in the politics of contention, of opposition. But because the culture was such that the populace sought a practical way out of their difficulties, therefore it has worked.”

SM Lee Kuan Yew, Speech to the National Trade Union Congress at the Singapore Conference Hall, 19 July 1996 https://fcpp.org/pdf/SPEECH%20BY%20MR%20LEE%20KUAN%20YEW%202004.pdf 1990s

“Once emotions are set in motion, and men pitted against men along these unspoken lines, you will have the kind of warfare that will split the nation from top to bottom and undo Malaysia. Everybody knows it. I don't have to say it. It is the unspoken word!”

[President's Address, Debate on President's Address, Parliament of Singapore, http://sprs.parl.gov.sg/search/topic.jsp?currentTopicID=00062986-ZZ&currentPubID=00069476-ZZ&topicKey=00069476-ZZ.00062986-ZZ_1%2Bid005_19850301_S0005_T00051-president-address%2B, March 01 1985, January 16 2015]
1980s

“Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it”

Lee Kuan Yew in the Parliament of Malaysia, 1965 http://www.jeffooi.com/archives/2005/11/i_went_into_act.php 1960s

“I bent over a chair and was given three of the best with my trousers on. I did not think he lightened his strokes. I have never understood why Western educationists are so much against corporal punishment. It did my fellow students and me no harm.”

MM Lee Kuan Yew on what would happen if a profligate opposition government touched Singapore's vast monetary reserves, "Lee Kuan Yew defends PAP's Political Dominance", Reuters, 16 September 2006
2000s

“If I were in authority in Singapore indefinitely without having to ask those who are governed whether they like what is being done, then I have not the slightest doubt that I could govern much more effectively in their interests.”

The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, 1998
1990s

“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?”

Radio Interview, 1960. Quoted in South-East Asia: A Political Profile, Damien Kingsbury (2001, p. 337)
1960s

“Let us get down to fundamentals. Is this an open, or is this a closed society? Is it a society where men can preach ideas - novel, unorthodox, heresies, to established churches and established governments - where there is a constant contest for men's hearts and minds on the basis of what is right, of what is just, of what is in the national interests, or is it a closed society where the mass media - the newspapers, the journals, publications, TV, radio - either bound by sound or by sight, or both sound and sight, men's minds are fed with a constant drone of sycophantic support for a particular orthodox political philosophy? I am talking of the principle of the open society, the open debate, ideas, not intimidation, persuasion not coercion…”

Lee Kuan Yew in the Parliament of Malaysia, 1965 http://maddruid.com/?p=645 1960s

“The final verdict will not be in the obituaries. The final verdict will be when the PhD students dig out the archives, read my old papers, assess what my enemies have said, sift the evidence and seek the truth. I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose”

Lee Kuan Yew, Before Singapore's independence, Malaysian Parliamentary Debates, Dec 18, 1964
1960s

“(Without the CPF), Singaporeans would buy enormous quantities of clothes, shoes, furniture, television sets, radio, tape recorders, hi-fis, washing machines, motor cars. They would have no substantial or permanent asset to show for it.”

Interview with the New York Times, September 2010 http://www.nas.gov.sg/archivesonline/data/pdfdoc/20100920006/transcript_of_minister_mentor_lee_kuan_yew.pdf 2010s

“Please do not assume that you can change governments. Young people don’t understand this.”

Asian Wall Street Journal, Oct 21 1985
1980s

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

MM Lee Kuan Yew, after 2006 Elections http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/singapore-tries-to-imagine-a-future-without-lee-kuan-yew/2015/03/18/b12acc7c-cbe7-11e4-8730-4f473416e759_story.html 2000s

“But if you are a troublemaker… it's our job to politically destroy you. Put it this way. As long as JB Jeyaretnam [Workers' Party leader] stands for what he stands for -- a thoroughly destructive force for me -- we will knock him. There are two ways of playing this. One, a you attack the policies; two, you attack the system. Jeyaretnam was attacking the system, he brought the Chief Justice into it. If I want to fix you, do I need the Chief Justice to fix you? 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. That's the way I had to survive in the past. That's the way the communists tackled me. He brought the Chief Justice into the political arena.”

Lee Kuan Yew, in a wry aside to critics who have accused him of governing Singapore like a nanny state, From Third World to First, The Singapore Story: 1965-2000, Lee Kuan Yew. 2000)
2000s

“I pointed to an article with bold headlines reporting that the police had refused to allow the PAP to hold a rally at Empress Place, and then to the last paragraph where in small type it added the meeting would take place where we were now. I compared this with a prominent report about an SPA rally. This was flagrant bias.”

SM Lee Kuan Yew, The Man & His Ideas, 1997
1990s

“When you're Singapore and your existence depends on performance — extraordinary performance, better than your competitors — when that performance disappears because the system on which it's been based becomes eroded, then you've lost everything… I try to tell the younger generation that and they say the old man is playing the same record, we've heard it all before. I happen to know how we got here and I know how we can unscramble it.”

SM Lee Kuan Yew, The Singapore Story: Memoirs of Lee Kuan Yew, 1998
1990s

“I’m dead by then. There’ll be different voices, different standpoints, but I stand by my record. I did some sharp and hard things to get things right. Maybe some people disapproved of it. Too harsh, but a lot was at stake and I wanted the place to succeed, that’s all. At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life.”

On one election result in Singapore, in Straits Times (26 June 2008), and "Opposition would ruin Singapore: Lee Kuan Yew" in AFP report at Google News (26 June 2008) http://web.archive.org/web/20080630100140/http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hO5GOaqrgGNspmaeLjs7LFRH6Fsw 2000s

“We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don't do that, the country would be in ruins”

On how history will assess him, in Hard Truths to Keep Singapore Going, 2011
2010s

“What if Mr Mah is unable to defend himself, he deserves to lose? No country in the world has given its citizens an asset as valuable as what we've given every family here. And if you say that policy is at fault, you must be daft.”

1986 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/23/us-singapore-leekuanyew-idUSKBN0MI08Y20150323 1980s