Weekly Roundup: Week 22
“Ng Eng Han, said that “sexuality education needs to be taught in a context of values which our mainstream society believes in”.. Attaching moral weight to facts is a dangerous proposition.”
Benjamin Cheah
“Israel has 5 million people, six million entrepreneurs, and fifteen million opinions. Singapore has 5 million people, six entrepreneurs and one opinion.”
Guy Kawasaki
“I don’t know why the PAP hasn’t figured out why it is so hard to convince intelligent and principled men and women to join the party. Surely having a chequered history of jailing and abusing well-meaning social activists should not be that big a barrier to joining the party? Or is it?”
Gerald Giam
“..the case for a strong viable opposition is made most forcefully by PAP MPs who do not believe that the PAP will ever fail.”
groundnotes
“The sad conclusion is that the purpose of the increase in NCMPs is to provide the citizenry with the theatre of political jousting without the substance of actual influence.”
Choo Zheng Xi, Khairulanwar Zaini
“..Sam Tan has a safe job in the CDAC which is recession proof and a part-time MP job that pays $217K – Sam Tan is not mollycoddled.”
LuckySingaporean
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