Joko Widodo Quotes

#1. I have never understood disliking for war. It panders to instincts already catered for within the scope of any respectable domestic establishment.

Alan Bennett

#2. When we have a corporation, we must know what the customer wants, what the customers needs. Also, the politician must know what the people want, what the people need.

Joko Widodo

#3. Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous.

Hans Eysenck

#4. She was home (in Heaven). She was with the Person she was made for, in the place that was made for her.

Randy Alcorn

#5. It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom.

Joko Widodo

#6. The pen is mightier than the sword, for by the sword are mortal battles waged, but by the pen entire cultures swayed, eternal societies arrayed, and souls of men saved.

Ilyan Kei Lavanway

#7. Societies raise their grandest monuments to what their cultures value most highly. As the tallest buildings in a city noted for tall buildings, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center were certainly monumental.

Michael Mandelbaum

#8. I'm not gonna lie: I was not a big 'Star Wars' geek.

Anthony Hemingway

#9. Fiction is a particularly effective way for strangers to connect across time and distance

Jonathan Franzen

#10. In fact, 80 percent of our domestic job growth comes from the small- and medium-sized business community.

Melissa Bean

#11. When the government allocates monopoly rights to frequency, and there are only a handful in each community, it's picking the winners in the competition.

Robert McChesney

#12. For me, democracy must deliver a better life for the people.

Joko Widodo

#13. Indonesia is the world's third-largest democracy. And we also have the world's largest Muslim population. This demonstrates that democracy and Islam are not incompatible. Terrorism is not associated with any religion.

Joko Widodo

#14. We need peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. It is important to have political and security stability to build up our economic growth.

Joko Widodo

#15. It is only by dispelling the clouds and phantoms of religion that we shall discover truth, reason and morality.

Baron D'Holbach

#16. I don't mind being called a puppet. But I'm the puppet of the people.

Joko Widodo

#17. When bad news sells, money politics buys.

Toba Beta

#18. In my opinion, the most important thing in governance is management control.

Joko Widodo

#19. Speak less, mature quicker!

Elif Shafak

#20. The problem that first demands solution is to discover the disruptive agent which would be potent enough to rip the Cloghvorra Stone from its parent bed, to bear it down the valley for miles, and to cast it on the mountain side.

Robert Stawell Ball

#21. Racism is beyond common sense and has no place in our society.

Morrissey

#22. Our world is going through very difficult times right now but #TRUTH is ... We can all do something to help brighten it!

Timothy Pina

#23. I'm willing to work with all parties to reform Indonesia.

Joko Widodo

#24. To deal with radicalism and extremism, we need to deal with economic inequality. This is what I learned from my experience in Solo and then in Jakarta.

Joko Widodo