Lee Kuan YewStart with putting three of your friends to jail. You definitely know what for, and people will believe you
About This Quote
This quote comes from the movie, The Fugitive. Richard Kimble is a man that has been wrongly accused of murdering his wife and child. His only hope of getting out of this one is to get three people to testify against him. Richard goes through a lot of trouble to get three people to put him in jail.
Richard kills his first witness, and then the second and third witnesses, and goes back and forth putting them all in jail and doing all sorts of hard time. Richard's friends do not care about him, they just want money and don't care about Richard's well-being.
Source: From Third World To First: The Singapore Story: 19652000
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