"you can put their biodata in a thumbdrive"

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Talk is cheap; these quotes are priceless. Excerpted from Singapore Election Watch:

"Retrenchment is good for Singapore. If there is no retrenchments at all, then I worry for Singapore."
- SM Goh

"Contrary to public perception, the White Horse classification is not to ensure that sons of influential men get preferential treatment. Instead it is to ensure that they do not get preferential treatment."
- Cedric Foo, former Minister of State for Defence and National development

"If you sing Jailhouse Rock with your electric guitar when others are playing Beethoven, you are out of order. The whip must be used on you."
- SM Goh

"We must encourage those who earn less than $200 per month and cannot afford to nurture and educate many children never to have more than two... We will regret the time lost if we do not now take the first tentative steps towards correcting a trend which can leave our society with a large number of the physically, intellecually and culturally anaemic."
- MM Lee

"If you don't include your women graduates in your breeding pool and leave them on the shelf, you would end up a more stupid society...So what happens? There will be less bright people to support dumb people in the next generation. That's a problem."
- MM Lee again.

I think actually MM Lee and I would get along; we appear to have similar views about stupid people, although I dare say mine are more extreme.

And my personal favourite, by far:

"If you want to dance on a bar top, some of us will fall off the bar top. Some people will die as a result of liberalising bar top dancing... a young girl with a short skirt dancing on it may attract some insults from some other men, the boyfriend will start fighting and some people will die."
- Vivian Balakrishnan, Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports

Very big caveat: the accuracy of these quotes has not been verified, and I suspect that parts of them could be either taken out of context or completely made up. Will update.

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