Lee Hsien Loong Quotes

Our problem number 1, 2 and 3 is economic development.

Taxes are an important tool for us together with infrastructure investments, research, and development to create more jobs.

I think we are smashing it as a government in terms of economic performance and infrastructure spend, but not everybody feels part of that success story.

The Obama administration's large and sustained increases in debt raise the specter of another financial crisis and large future tax increases, further chilling business investment and job creation.

Infrastructure investment can boost economic growth and employment, and, in fact, it is fiscally neutral.

The foundations of a strong economy don't rest alone on the decisions of Chancellors or the spending programmes of government.

I think if there's a great depression there might be some hope.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

We have to change economic policy: create confidence, foster investment, cut the public deficit, restructure taxation and reform the labor laws.

Government spending is taxation. When you look at this, I've never heard of a poor person spending himself into prosperity; let alone I've never heard of a poor person taxing himself into prosperity.

Government should concentrate on building up infrastructure and skill development. Simplification of taxation is another important area.

The great hinderance to the development of this continent has lain in the lack of capital.

Throughout U.S. history, competent public investments have been an essential complement to private investments - from the Louisiana Purchase, to land-grant colleges, to the Interstate Highway System, to the Internet.

The government can access these funds but only following approval by the parliament to support our budget requirements and investments in infrastructure development, education, public health, and so on.

A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.

... a better government: more complete security of property; moderate taxes; a more permanent ... tenure of land ... the introduction of foreign arts ... and the introduction of foreign capital, which renders the increase of production no longer exclusively on the thrift or providence of the inhabitants themselves.

Our infrastructure is just barely adequate to support our current level of economic activity, and our current rate of infrastructure improvement and investment falls vastly short of tomorrow's needs.

As we double our numbers ... we must double our houses.

The American electorate has come to expect a growing pie, with politicians arguing about how to distribute the growth dividend every year.

The politics of growth trump the politics of compassion.

Government spending is not wasteful. The question is, “Is it necessary?”

Development has to rise if population is going to increase, Otherwise people will starve and all kinds of other problems.

History does not provide any example of capital accumulation brought about by a government. As far as governments invested in the construction of roads, railroads, and other useful public works, the capital needed was provided by the savings of individual citizens and borrowed by the government.

What separates developing countries from developed countries is as much a gap in knowledge as a gap in resources.

The fact is, Canada needs investment, particularly in infrastructure.