Quotes from Lee Kuan Yew – What can we learn from him? “My worldview is a Chines

Quotes from Lee Kuan Yew – What can we learn from him?

“My worldview is a Chinese worldview with a layer of Western institutions on top.”– National Day Rally

“We are Asians in social instincts but we adopted the Westminster system because it works.” –1994 Foreign Affairs interview

“My cultural ballast is Confucian; the operating system is British common law.”– 1996 Harvard Kennedy School dialogue

“We have the institutions of a Western state, but the values of an Asian society.”–1994 Foreign Affairs interview

“I think in Asian categories, but I measure success by the standards of a modern liberal economy.” — 1996 Harvard ISC interview with David Gergen

–“Lee declares that his core value set (“Eastern value-system”) remains intact, but he acknowledges that English and Western administrative practices overlay his Confucian instincts, producing Singapore’s hybrid, rule-of-law governance.”–