Lee Kuan Yew on clever jabs

I make no apologies that the PAP is the Government and the Government is the PAP.

For me it is a moment of anguish because all my life … you see, the whole of my adult life … I have believed in merger and the unity of these two territories.

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

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Winston Churchill1874–1965

Thus far, the reputed idiot Bush has graduated from Yale and Harvard, made a stack of cash in the oil industry, become the first consecutive-term governor of Texas, defeated a dual-term VP for the presidency, and led his party to [November 5th’s] extraordinary triumphs. Let his opponents keep calling him stupid; if they do, within five years Bush will be King of England, the Pope, and world Formula One motor racing champion.

Tim Blairborn 1965

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I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Mark Twain1835–1910