Happy 90th Birthday to our Founding Father of Singapore-
Mr Lee Kuan Yew
Just how great is our Founding Father?
Mr Lee Kuan Yew was our Prime Minister from 1959 to 1990. Senior Minister from 1990 to 2004, when Mr Goh Chok Tong became Singapore's second Prime Minister. In August 2004, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong appointed him as Minister of Mentor. Retired from Cabinet after General Election 2011.
As the co-founder and first General Secretary of the People's Action Party (PAP), he led the party to eight victories from 1959 to 1990.
Singapore was considered as "one little red dot", yet our Founding Father give us Singaporean, an immense sense of pride, when even the world's great leaders have the extreme respect for Mr Lee.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/seek-the-wisdomof-lee-kuan-yew-87620.html#ixzz2f4RHoF9D By ROBERT D. BLACKWILL and GRAHAM ALLISON | 2/13/13 9:27 PM EST
"Lee Kuan Yew has served as mentor to every Chinese leader from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping and as counselor to every American president from Richard Nixon to Barack Obama."
As Henry Kissinger says in the foreword to the new book, “Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World”: “I have had the privilege of meeting many world leaders over the past half-century; none, however, has taught me more than Lee Kuan Yew.”
China’s new leader, Xi Jinping, calls Lee “our senior who has our respect.”
President Obama refers to him as a “legendary figure of Asia in the 20th and 21st centuries.”
Former Prime Minister Tony Blair, he is “the smartest leader I ever met.”
Another former prime minister of the United Kingdom, Margaret Thatcher, praises “his way of penetrating the fog of propaganda and expressing with unique clarity the issues of our time and the way to tackle them.”
Lee “has the most modern and the most strategic view of anyone I have met,” according to former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
We once again express our heartfelt thanks to our Founding Father, for what we are today! Have more great years ahead!
