Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Tun Dato' Sri Haji Abdullah bin Haji AhmadAHB-doo-lah AH-mahd bah-DAH-wee; Arabic: عبد الله بن حاجّ أحمد بدوي ʿAbdullāh ibn ḥaajj Aḥmad Badawī; born 26 November 1939) is a Malaysian politician who served as Prime Minister of Malaysia 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...
ProfessionPolitician
Date of Birth26 November 1939
command good
Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party.
committed deal militant moderate muslims peace
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.
believe business cost demand lower people provide services
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.
almost fix maintained occasion somehow talked tried united video
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.
thinking important old-fashioned
Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
golf play giving
I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
children fighting play
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.
usa iraq might
The world [is] now seeing might is right.
religious school mecca
So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education
justice important said
But I have always said that it's important we must make sure that justice is at all time be maintained.
integrity plans
We have now recently launched the national integrity plan.
corruption
I will be happy with certainly when the corruption index improve.
race use cabinets
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.
islamic play people
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.