The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to development.
From Lee Kuan Yew
America's greatest long-term influence on China comes from playing host to the thousands of students who come from China each year, some of the ablest Chinese scholars and scientists. They will be the most powerful agents for change in China.
I always tried to be correct, not politically correct.
All my life... I believed in Malaysian merger and unity of the two territories. You know that we, as a people, are connected by geography, economics, by ties of kinship.
If you are going to lower me into the grave, and I feel something is wrong, I will get up.
I support the view that free trade in goods and services is a win-win situation. I'm not so convinced that free flows of capital without restriction is a win-win situation.
The enduring lesson is war is a disaster. Whoever wins, tremendous loss of life, property - a set back for civilisation.
The problem is to keep the monkey mind from running off into all kinds of thoughts.
The ultimate test of the value of a political system is whether it helps that society to establish conditions which improve the standard of living for the majority of its people.
If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.
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