Ahmad Badawi Quotes

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

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

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

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

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

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#4. 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.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#5. I really don't want to be a hunk.

John Mayer

#6. God keeps telling us to be not afraid, to go big

Bob Goff

#7. We employ our personality, what we know, think, and believe, in order to interpret the world, making self-understanding a critical act because it establishes the baseline for our philosophical and intellectual approach towards life.

Kilroy J. Oldster

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

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#9. 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.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#10. The world [is] now seeing might is right.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#11. We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#12. 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.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

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

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

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

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#15. 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.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#16. Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#17. 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.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#18. Some people hurt themselves with a blade and others do it with poisonous thoughts

Dee Juusan

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

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#20. 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.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#21. As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

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#22. My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.

Peter Diamandis

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

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

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

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#25. 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.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

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

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#27. 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.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#28. 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.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#29. 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.

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#30. In a world where the great technologies enable us to record, replay, cut and paste, zoom in, and delete, listening is the crucial commitment to keep the heart touchable.

Mark Nepo

#31. Diversity gives our city a competitive edge.

Thomas Menino

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

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#33. Abstract love of humanity is nearly always love of self.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#34. It felt as if I was suddenly walking around in wet socks, weighing my feet down as if two kids were sitting on my feet with their legs wrapped around mine.

David Bowick