Wednesday, January 21, 2009

Quotes by Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (born 26 November 1939)

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Quotes


- As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

- But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.

- I always said that you can use the same vehicle although the driver will change, or the same vehicle to go for the race. It's a different driver, this is exactly what's happening to the cabinet.

- I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

- I believe it is an important project, it makes the cost of doing business lower and they will make us more competitive at the same time, it will also provide some satisfaction to the people who demand services for them of the quality they want and also quickly.

- I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

- I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

- I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.

- I, talking about my children, of course I wanted them to succeed in life, they have to choose whatever job or occupation that they want, I will not try to influence.

- It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.

- Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

- So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.

- So when I had to make a decision whether I would like to do honors degree course in Islamic studies and Malay studies too, so I thought Islamic studies would be good.

- Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

- The idea is that they wouldn't want to deal with militant Islam but an Islam and Muslims who are committed to progress, committed to development, who like peace and are moderate in their ways. So that's what we are doing here.

- Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.

- We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children.

- We have also set up the national institute for ethics. This institute and also the implementation of the national integrity plan, that will certainly do the follow up that is necessary for this.

- We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.

- We have followed a path of moderation, development is our priority, national unity, good community relations, Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.

- We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

- Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party.

- When she was in United States, we maintained contact, we talked to each other on the phone, almost every night. And there was one occasion I tried to fix this video conferencing but somehow it did not come out very well enough so better to talk on the phone.

- You can't have too much of everything, you must have a balance, that's very important.

- To develop the human capital, we want our citizens to be fully equipped with knowledge, practice good moral values, have a broad mind, love the country and possess the physical and spiritual strength

- We detest any form of violence related to religion, or ideology or race.

- Sometimes if there is too much freedom exercised then democracy will be destroyed

- the only way to deal effectively with the scourge of international terrorism.

- It is not appropriate at all for the money to be spent on someone’s retirement. It is over the top,

- Although the ASEAN-US dialog is 28 years old this year, I feel this still suffers a considerable problem with expectations which do not match,

- We would like to invite the United States to consider acceding to the TAC, ... Such a step would indeed serve as a symbol of political commitment to the region by the United States.

- She is responding well to treatment but chemotherapy is not easy to undergo,

- We are now investigating another company,

- The Malaysia-Iraq ties have never been broken,

- They (the major powers) appeared to lack confidence that Iran would not eventually produce nuclear bombs,

- ministers expressed concern over the latest developments on the situation in Cambodia.

- People regard the monsoon season as a natural disaster and there have always been negative conceptions that the monsoon season isn’t a good time to visit Terengganu,

- Going forward, we will continue to develop and deepen these niche areas to increase the attractiveness of the MSC as a premier location for SSO operations,

- fulfill the obligations of this position honestly and with all my energy.

- I have been informed that he has been arrested for no longer having valid travel documents,

- There are too many individuals who take advantage of the freedom of expression to make many wild and slanderous allegations and we should not allow this to continue when what they said is not true,

- We will not have any role in its work as we want the commission to be really independent and free of any form of government intervention.

- We do not want anyone to say that we are restricting its work. This will then be no good,

- Let them decide how long they will take to finish.

- Nothing seems to please them in whatever is happening in Malaysia, ... We knew it all the time that they were going to criticize.

- If there are other books and magazines with caricature of Prophet Mohammed, they also cannot be distributed because they hurt the feelings of Muslims and shame our religion,

- The question is what is an appropriate percentage of the equity,

- From the aspect of business, it is definitely good, but from the political standpoint, let the Prime Minister reply,

- We are concerned about the developing dichotomy in Japanese-Chinese relations, which we consider one of the main pillars of East Asian cooperation.

- It would have the effect of preventing anything that would cause instability, anything that would put us on the road to confrontation.

- As far as we are concerned, he has committed a serious offense and we cannot hand him over to others to be extradited,

- Should we combine these figures with the Muslim population in the OIC nations, it will provide us with an immensely huge Islamic consumer market,

- Strengthening human capital and bringing about a cultural and mindset change will be a key challenge during the plan period.

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