Lee Hsien Loong Quotes

The Chinese have always enjoyed gambling, and Macau is the only place in Greater China where gambling is legal. So I believe the government understands that there has to be a place for it.

There are emotional and moral arguments against gambling and I don't negate them. But the statistics don't back up the emotional arguments, they back up the fact that people here need jobs.

I feel very strongly that you can't just beat people up anymore; you have to work hand in hand and find ways to compromise, and get big business involved, because it won't happen otherwise.

As a kid, I saw that Dad lost a lot of money in casinos, and I didn't understand that. I thought this must be a great business. At the same time, I saw when I was with him - and I was with him a lot of the time - that this was a really cool business, and it was fun and glamorous.

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

No presidential candidate should visit Las Vegas without condemning organized gambling.

If Singapore is a nanny state, then I am proud to have fostered one.

Not wishing to be disturbed over moral issues of the political economy, Americans cling to the notion that the government is a sort of automatic machine, regulated by the balancing of competing interests.

Rational as distinguished from vindictive regulation by public authority turns out to be an extremely delicate problem which not every government agency, particularly when in full cry against big business, can be trusted to solve.

People frequently say that it is human nature to want to gamble and, therefore, you cannot prevent it. It seems to me there are ways of satisfying this enjoyment in gambling without encouraging widespread crime organizations. Much of what we read about could not possibly go on without the connivance of government officials in cities and states and even at the Federal level.

What good would politics be, if it didn’t give everyone the opportunity to make moral compromises?

A free enterprise system that is not underlaid with values is bankrupt.

It is possible that a wise and good man may be prevailed on to game; but it is impossi∣ble that a professed gamester should be a wise and good man.

I'm not coming in as an advocate of sports gambling. I'm trying to be more of a realist to say it's going on in a massive way... and I think the right course would be therefore to legalize it and regulate it.

Each year on Impact Day, I love seeing our people fill classrooms, parks, and training centers to make a difference in communities across the country.

We can no longer pretend that business is immune from the rising tide of environmental or social challenges or that companies can create value in isolation from the communities of which they are a part.

Congress needs to get over their political bias with each other and work toward saving children's lives.

Just as outlawing alcohol did not work in the 1920s, current attempts to prohibit online gambling will not work, either.

What's to become of the morally sound? Left out in the cold, I suppose. We must heal the sick.

Sooner or later... one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.

In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit.

Whoever plays deep must necessarily lose his money or his character.

I don't want our success to be measured only by financial yardsticks, or by our distribution or number of shops. What I want to be celebrated for - and it's going to be tough in a business environment - is how good we are to our employees and how we benefit our community. It's a different bottom line.

I realized early that unless you're willing to kill the innocent, you can't win.

Vice is a dreary business. And virtue is not a lot of fun, either.