 Hors D'oeuvre (pronounced or-durve) refer to savoury delectables served before the main course.
In this segment, we present bite-size political statements by members of the ruling elite.
Unlike appetizers, however, these PAP-served hors d'oeuvres are really indigestible. So if you don't want to ruin your appetite, we suggest you skip this section. Have a good one to share? Click here...
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 "If I could rewind time, with the benefit of hindsight, I should have budgeted a larger amount in the first place," he says.
"But the real question is if I knew that it was going to cost this amount, would I still have proceeded to bid for the games? The answer is a definite 'yes'." (BBC News, 14 Aug 2010)
- Vivian Balakrishnan,
Minister of Community Development, Youth and Sports
On the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) spending which has surpassed the original estimates of $104 million by more than three times to approximately $387 million.
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 “The PAP makes promises they deliver. The Opposition cannot deliver.”
“If you have a flood, just carefully think who is more likely to get the drainage put right and have the flood alleviated as quickly as possible: A PAP candidate with links to the ministers and Prime Minister, or a non-PAP candidate who has become an MP, like in Potong Pasir or Hougang, and who has to manage on his own?”
“That’s a fact of life.” (Today, 29 April 2006)
- Lee Kuan Yew,
Minister Mentor
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 "I hope people will be able to give (younger members) space to grow and learn. The last thing we want is people who are scared to express their views." (Today, 29 July 2010)
- Baey Yam Keng,
PAP Member of Parliament
(on the callous remarks made by YPAP leader Jack Lin Xinli on Singaporeans being "3rd class citizens")
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 "There should be no retirement age for workers... You work as long as you can work and you will be healthier and happier for it." (Channel News Asia, 28 July 2010)
- Lee Kuan Yew,
Minister Mentor
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 "Whatever we do when we get extraordinary rains like we had recently, no amount of engineering can prevent flooding... unless you want to lose half the roads and have canals." (Channel News Asia, 21 July 2010)
- Lee Kuan Yew,
Minister Mentor
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 “The Taiwanese are ruthless, Hong Kongers are shameless and Singaporeans are ignorant. People who are ignorant are not corrupt and reliable.” (Today, 14 July 2010)
- Lee Kuan Yew,
Minister Mentor
(Speaking at the inaugural Future China Global Forum Meeting)
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 Floods in Singapore cannot be avoided ... It is not possible to expect Singapore to be completely free of floods. (My Paper, 28 June 2010)
- Lee Hsien Loong,
Prime Minister
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 I think the spurs are not stuck on your hinds. They are part of the herd, why-go-faster? (National Geographic, Jan 2010)
- Lee Kuan Yew,
Minister Mentor
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 It adds to their wealth and this is asset-enhancing policy Mr Lee believes citizens should not find fault with. If they do, they must be ‘daft’, he said…(Channel News Asia, Jan 2010)
- Lee Kuan Yew,
Minister Mentor
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 "The thing we can accept is that we can only design our canal of a certain size, at the end of the day, we have to live with some of these occurrences which occurs once in 50 years or so." (Channel News Asia, 21 Dec 2006)
- Yaacob Ibrahim,
Minister for the Environment and Water Resources
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"Yesterday's event, I was told by the PUB, occurs once every 50 years." (The Straits Times, 21 Nov 2009)
- Yaacob Ibrahim,
Minister for the Environment and Water Resources
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 Singaporean politics seems to be in a political class of its own as long as we think of it primarily as a country. This is where most people make a mistake.
I have tried to explain that we are different. We are a city. We are not a country. The picture changes radically if we instead think of Singapore as a city. (The Straits Times, 30 Oct 09)
- K. Shanmugam, Minister of Law
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