Lee Hsien Loong Quotes:

You put out a funny podcast, you talk about bak chor mee. I will say mee siam mai hum.

source: - National Day Rally, 2006.

People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside parliament.

source: - "How Many Ministers Does It Take To Change A Lightbulb?". "The People's Authoritarian Party" with Lee Hsien Loong and Denise Phua, www.theonlinecitizen.com. October 1, 2001.

Topics: Cutting, People, Support

Our people should feel free to express diverse views, pursue unconventional ideas or simply be different.

Topics: Views, Ideas, People

Beijing residents joke that to get a free smoke all they have to do is open their windows!

Topics: Window, Beijing, Residents

There is no policy too sensitive to question, and no subject so taboo that you cannot even mention it.

source: - The Straits Times, January 17, 2000.

Topics: Sensitive, Policy, Taboo

I thanked the President [George W. Bush] for the steadfastness and resolve with which he's tackling the very complicated problems in the Middle East and Iraq, as well as the Israel-Palestinian issue....It's critical for us in Southeast Asia that America does that.... because it affects America's standing in Asia and the world, and also the security environment in Asia because extremists, the jihadists, watch carefully what's happening in the Middle East and take heart, or lose heart, depending on what's happening.

source: - "Farewell To All That: An Oral History Of The Bush White House" by Cullen Murphy and Todd S. Purdum, www.vanityfair.com. February 2009.

Topics: Heart, Iraq, America, Southeast Asia, President George W Bush