Widodo Quotes

#1. My tendency is to be the guy in the back, even though I often end up being the guy in the front.

Balthazar Getty

#2. 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

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

Joko Widodo

#4. Stopping advertising to save money is like stopping your watch to save time.

Henry Ford

#5. People who mean well always do badly. They are like the ladies who wear clothes that don't fit them in order to show their piety. Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical. Man

Oscar Wilde

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

Joko Widodo

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

Toba Beta

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

Joko Widodo

#9. 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

#10. I also became interested in chemistry and gradually accumulated enough test tubes and other glassware to do chemical experiments, using small quantities of chemicals purchased from a pharmacy supply house.

Sydney Brenner

#11. 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

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

Joko Widodo

#13. Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.

Al Gore

#14. The first inventions of commerce are, like those of all other arts, cunning and short-sighted.

John Philpot Curran

#15. I have no political aspirations. That's it.

Kapil Dev

#16. You can't end negotiations unless you begin them. And you can't begin them if you continually negotiate about the terms to begin negotiations.

Benjamin Netanyahu

#17. Don't be late to the theater. The opening scene is a goody.

Sharon Stone

#18. I find that if I'm watching somebody upon television or in a movie that is on a window ledge or in some high precarious position my hand starts sweating and I get that crawling feeling in the soles of my feet.

Alan Moore

#19. Any serious effort to reform the media system would have to necessarily be part of a revolutionary program to overthrow the capitalist system itself.

Robert Waterman McChesney

#20. I think that a man should be caring.

Little Richard

#21. 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

#22. Erm, I don't really have any regrets.

Bobby Farrelly

#23. 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