A sharp hatchet in my bag

If you are a troublemaker… it’s our job to politically destroy you. Put it this way. As long as JB Jeyaratnam 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.

(“The Man And His Ideas”, 1997)


Lee Kuan Yew,
Minister Mentor

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