Best 19 quotes of Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on MyQuotes

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Sometimes children do forget their filial responsibilities.

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.

The world [is] now seeing might is right.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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