If you are a troublemaker, it’s our job to politically destroy you. Put it this way. As long as JB Jeyaretnam stands for what he stands for – a thoroughly destructive force – we will knock him. Everybody knows that in my bag I have a hatchet, and a very sharp one. You take me on, I take my hatchet, we meet in the cul-de-sac. ✨ Lee Kuan Yew: The Man and His Ideas. Book by Fook Kwang Han, Sumiko Tan, and Warren Fernandez, 1998.
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