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

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Source : The Straits Times, January 17, 2000.

Lee Hsien Loong

#Sensitive Quotes #Policy Quotes #Taboo Quotes

“For a man not to achieve the things he has an opportunity to do is such a waste of life.”
“We all recognize that Colorado and our nation have a long and storied tradition of gun ownership for hunting, outdoor recreation and self-defense. However, I am not convinced that combat weapons are necessarily part of that heritage.”
“Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience--the recognitions or revelations--out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions.”
“I have established the semaphore of Suprematism. I have beaten the lining of the colored sky, torn it away and in the sack that formed itself, I have put color and knotted it. Swim! The free white sea, infinity, lies before you.”

Source : "Catalogue 10th State Exhibition", Moscow, 1919.
“I love fruit, when it is expensive.”

Source : Arthur Wing Pinero (2007). “The Second Mrs. Tanqueray”, p.77, Broadview Press
“If there is one thing the past years have taught us, it is the importance of a keen and high sense of honor in those who handle our governmental affairs.”

Source : Millicent Fenwick (1982). “Speaking up”, Harpercollins
“Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.”
“As has been pointed out with Libya, the debate over Libya, sometimes we allow diplomatic relations with imperfect regimes because progress can best be made through engagement instead of isolation.”

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