2016年03月23日，因病医治无效去世，享年91岁。 强悍、充满斗志甚至偏执的强人远去，我们一起来回顾一下他冷硬如刀丶直指人心的箴言。
李光耀谈媒体 【没有新闻就是好新闻】
我总是觉得此事很奇怪：一个国家有麻烦时，就会受到国际媒体注目......1942年日本占领新加坡之前，或1955年和1956年新加坡发生期间导致两名记者遇害之前，世上没有多少人听过新加坡这个地方。後来我开始明白，当涉及外国媒体时，没有消息就是好消息。
──李光耀於1959年9月16日於外国记者协会发言
I have always thought it strange that a country figures prominently in the world press mainlywhen it is in
troubleNobody in the rest of the world heard much about Singapore until it was captured by theJapanese in 1942 or
again until there were riots in 1955 and 1956 in the course of one of which two members of yourfraternity were killed. I have e to believe that, so far as the foreign press is concerned, no news is good news.
Speech at Foreign Correspondents Association, 16th Sep, 1959
关於国际领袖 【谁最伟大?】
我觉得最伟大的是邓小平。以他这个年纪，要承认自己的错误，承认马克斯丶列宁丶毛泽东思想不可行而必须放弃，只有伟人才能做到。
──《李光耀对话录》(Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew )汤姆.普雷特(Tom Plate)著
I would say the greatest was Deng Xiaoping. At his age, to admit that he was wrong, that all theseideas, Marxism, Leninism, Maoism, they are just not working and have to be abandoned, you needa great man to do that
- Tom Plates Conversations with Lee Kuan Yew
【再谈邓小平】
邓小平是个伟人。中国原是一个破败的国家，本可能像苏联那样崩溃，但他一手改变了中国的命运，让这个国家变成今天的面貌，并逐步成为全球最大经济体。──《新加坡赖以生存的硬道理》