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[..:: "___", said LKY ::..]
I belong to the old school. I believe that it is better to be feared than to be loved. My younger colleagues sometimes want to be both.
I decided a long time ago that popularity is something volatile. They feel good, they get their bonuses, you're popular.
They are squeezed, there's a recession, you're blamed for it, your stocks go down. And the key is not to hold an election when people are not feeling good.
I do not believe that popular government means you have to be popular when you govern. I think the best thing to do is to do all the unpopular things when you are governing so that at the end of your term, you have the choice of a date when you feel that they will be most grateful that you've done all these unpopular things and they vote for you.
I don't know about branding. I do know that you need a good reputation, not just outside Singapore but within Singapore, with your own people.
This is a place that works, that must work and continue to work because it is based on principles. And the first principle is nobody owes us a living
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