Abdullah Ahmad Badawi famous quotes

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

#Simple #Balance #Too Much

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

#Islamic #Play #People

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

#Children #Paddy #Fields

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

#Islamic #Decision #Honor

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

#Unions #Students #Active

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

#Just Being #Rich #My Family

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

#Balance #Important #Too Much

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

#Jobs #Children #Talking

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#Children #Responsibility #Sometimes

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

#Important #Development #Resources

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

#Race #Different #Use

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

#Corruption

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

#Golf #Play #Giving

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

#Community #Priorities #Atheism

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

#Children #Fighting #Play

The world [is] now seeing might is right.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#Iraq #Usa #World

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

#Religious #School #Mecca

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

#Justice #Important #Said

We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.
-- Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

#Integrity #Plans

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

#Integrity #Ethics #Plans

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

#Thinking #Important #Old Fashioned