Lee Kuan Yew, Singapore's founding father and still its "minister mentor" has maintained that ambitious migrants help to keep citizens on their toes.
After Li's remarks, he sat facing the stage as company President and Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes brought on Lee Kuan Yew, minister mentor and patriarch of modern Singapore.
Singapore has been an outstanding friend and ally of the United States for many, many years, and so I am very much looking forward to the opportunity to hearing from the Minister Mentor his views on the evolving situation in Asia, as I prepare for my upcoming trip both to Singapore and to other key nations in the region.
WHITEHOUSE: President Obama Meets with Singapore Minister Mentor Lee
He rose quickly through the ranks, becoming finance minister in 1991 and then deputy prime minister under his mentor, then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.
It was Bill Richards, psychologist, minister, and mentor who taught me to lead from the heart.
In his relations with Clinton, Barak hopes for what his mentor, assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, had achieved--direct, instant and frequent access to the President.
But when Tangentopoli got going in 1992, and Mr Amato was put forward as a caretaker prime minister, he smartly distanced himself from his mentor.
Instead, they see it as a personal betrayal by Mahathir Mohamad, Malaysia's prime minister and Mr Anwar's one-time mentor.
Mr Taha, the first deputy prime minister, was partly responsible for ousting Mr Turabi, his erstwhile mentor, and has succeeded him as chief ideologue.
First he broke ranks with Necmettin Erbakan, his old mentor, who was Turkey's first Islamist prime minister and was himself shoved out of power in 1997 by the country's meddlesome generals.
The present chief minister of the state, J Jayalalitha, was once a star actress and her mentor MG Ramachandran, who also ruled the state, was a stage actor turned movie star.
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