Lee Kuan Yew/prime Minister Post-independence %e2%80%93 1965 To 1990

Famous quotes containing the words prime, minister, lee and/or yew:

    One’s prime is elusive. You little girls, when you grow up, must be on the alert to recognize your prime at whatever time of your life it may occur. You must then live it to the full.
    Muriel Spark (b. 1918)

    [T]he dignity of parliament it seems can brook no opposition to it’s power. Strange that a set of men who have made sale of their virtue to the minister should yet talk of retaining dignity!
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    You see what you’ve done, don’t you?... You’ve committed the supreme blasphemy.
    —John Lee Mahin (1902–1984)

    Reptilian green the wrinkled throat,
    Green as a bough of yew the beard;
    He bent his head, and so I smote;
    Yvor Winters (1900–1968)