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The exuberance of democracy leads to undisciplined and disorderly conditions which are inimical to development.

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Countries that are agricultural can, at a low standard of living, sustain themselves. You can be self-sufficient; the money economy is a relatively insignificant part of the total economy. Singapore never was an agricultural country.

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If you deprive yourself of outsourcing and your competitors do not, you're putting yourself out of business.

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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.

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The original communitarianism of Chinese Confucian society has degenerated into nepotism, a system of family linkages, and corruption, on the mainland. And remnants of the evils of the original system are still found in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and even Singapore.

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The difficult part was getting the people to change their habits so that they behaved more like first world citizens, not like third world citizens spitting and littering all over the place.

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The acid test of any legal system is not the greatness or the grandeur of its ideal concepts, but whether, in fact, it is able to produce order and justice.

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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.

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You need a certain standard of literacy, moral and ethical values, to be able to run a one man, one vote system.

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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.

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Biography

Nationality: Unknown

Type: Statesman

Born: September 16th, 1923

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