Abdullah Ahmad Badawi

As a child, the paddy field was my playground.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.