Lee Kuan Yew Quotes
To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be done by not being beaten in the argument with our critics. They complain that I come down too hard on their arguments. But wrong ideas have to be challenged before they influence public opinion and make for problems. Those who try to be clever at the expense of the government should not complain if my replies are as sharp as their criticisms.
Lee, Kuan Yew. From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000. HarperCollins, 2000.
He and his Prime Minister, John Majors, had become so unpopular, that they were forced to resign by their own Conservative Party and never had to be voted out of office.
Lewis had sent Nkrumah is resignation. He believed that the economic policies that Nkrumah had chosen against his advice, risked economic disaster for Ghana in the long run. Nkrumah had wanted to invest very scarce country resources in “prestige projects” which had high visibility in the country and to the world but really just drained capital and did not develop infrastructure or economic capability of the country. He felt that if the people could be proud enough of their new nation and the world could respect them, the future would be better. So for example, he opened diplomatic missions throughout South America while at that time, Ghana was doing no business with South America. Lewis turned out to have been right, and Nkrumah had gambled and lost. Ghana had very little economic development or improvement in standard of living.
Lee Kuan Yew GCMG CH SPMJ, often referred to by his initials LKY, was a Singaporean statesman and lawyer who served as Prime Minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990. As one of the founding members of the People's Action Party, Lee is recognised as the nation's founding father, credited with rapidly transitioning the country from a "developing third world country into a developed first world country within a single generation" under his leadership. Lee died of pneumonia on 23 March 2015, aged 91. In a week of national mourning, about 1.7 million Singaporean residents as well as world leaders paid tribute to him at his lying-in-state at Singapore's Parliament House and at community tribute sites around the country.
