註一︰我嘗試很努力去找李光耀當年的講話,但只能夠找到多年後的一段節錄,所以當年李光耀實際說了什麼已無從稽考。李光耀論述新加坡與斯里蘭卡 - When I went to Colombo for the first time in 1956 it was a better city than Singapore because Singapore had three and a half years of Japanese occupation and Colombo was the centre or HQ of Mountbatten's Southeast Asia command. And they had sterling reserves. They had two Universities. Before the war, a thick layer of educated talent So if you believe what American liberals or British liberals used to say, then it ought to have flourished. But it didn't (http://www.dailynews.lk/2007/08/18/main_Letters.asp).
從可倫坡到 Mount Latvinia(Galkissa)的酒店,我們中途被多少個檢查站的軍人截停,同一個程序,同一堆問題,這些已讓我開始感到非常不耐煩。本來一個小時的車程,卻因為這些檢查站和失驚無神出現的路障而多花一倍的時間。我當時在想︰斯里蘭卡人平常到底怎麼忍受得了?斯里蘭卡是不是危險到一種政府要每幾百米就設一個檢查站?政府會不會小題大作了一點?...