white and white

[spiderpig]

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

"I don't think that there should be a cap on the number of
directorship that a person can hold." - PAP MP John Chen who holds 8
directorships.

"It's not for the money because some of the companies pay me as little
as $10,000 a year." - PAP MP Wang Kai Yuen who holds 11 directorships.

"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

"I would want to form an alternative policies group in Parliament,
comprising 20 PAP MPs. These 20 PAP MPs will be free to vote in
accordance with what they think of a particular policy. In other
words, the whip for them will be lifted. This is not playing politics,
this is something which I think is worthwhile doing." - SM Goh

"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 again, on a dramatic u-turn, rethink or backtrack,
whatever you call it.

"Save on one hairdo and use the money for breast screening." - another
gem from Lim Hng Kiang

"We started off with (the name) and after looking at everything, the
name that really tugged at the heartstrings was in front of us. The
name itself is not new, but what has been used informally so far has
endeared itself to all parties." - Mah Bow Tan on the $400,000
exercise to rename Marina Bay as Marina Bay.

"Having enjoyed football as a national sport for decades, we in
Singapore have set ourselves the target of reaching the final rounds
of World Cup in 2010." - Ho Peng Kee

"Only 5% are unemployed. We still have 95% who are employed." - Yeo
Cheow Tong

"Singaporean workers have become more expensive than those in the USA
and Australia." - Tony Tan

"People support CPF cuts because there are no protest outside
parliament." - PM Lee

"No, it was not a U-turn, and neither was it a reversal of government
policy. But you can call it a rethink." - Yeo Cheow Tong

"...I regret making the decision because, in the end, the baby
continued to be in intensive care, and KKH now runs up a total bill of
more than $300,000..." - Lim Hng Kiang, regretting the decision to
save a baby's life because KKH ran up a $300,000 bill

Random thought: For a while, I forgot that Lesmana had a name. I mean, I forgot that he was called Charles. Haahahaha.