Abdullah Ahmad Badawi Quotes

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

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Too Much, Balance, Important

• 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

  Topics in Decisions

  Tags in Course, Honors, Islamic

• Of course education becomes very very important and that’s for our human resource development.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Topics in Education

  Tags in Human, Development

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Athlete, Fighting, Bird

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

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

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  Tags in Be Happy, Index, Improve, Corruption

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

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Athlete, Too Much, Balance, Complicated

• We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Integrity, National, Athlete, Launched, Plan

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

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Command

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Islam, Islamic

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

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Religious, Secondary, Forget, Went

• Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Athlete, Responsibilities, Forget

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Ethics, National, Institute, Necessary

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

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Athlete, Rich, Quite

• 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

  Topics in Progress

  Tags in Committed, Militant, Muslims

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Occasion, Fix, Tried

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Athlete, Cabinet, Exactly, Driver

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Competitive, Satisfaction

• 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

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Unity, Athlete, Path

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

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Athlete, Golf

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

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

  Topics in Justice

  Tags in Maintained

Abdullah Ahmad Badawi (24)

Birth:	26th November, 1939
Nationality:	Malaysian
Profession:	Politician

About

Tun Abdullah bin Haji Ahmad Badawi is a Malaysian politician who served as Prime Minister from 2003 to 2009. He was also the President of the United Malays National Organisation, the largest political party in Malaysia, and led the governing Barisan Nasional parliamentary coalition. He is informally known as Pak Lah, 'Pak' meaning 'Uncle' while 'Lah' is taken from his name 'Abdullah'. After Prime Minister Tun Dr. Mahathir bin Mohamad sacked Anwar Ibrahim, he appointed Abdullah as Deputy Prime Minister. Abdullah went on to succeed Mahathir as Prime Minister in 2003. On 3 April 2009, he was succeeded by Najib Tun Razak as Prime Minister. Abdullah was then conferred the title Tun by his majesty Mizan Zainal Abidin for his service to the nation.

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