Widodo Quotes & Sayings

For man, the vast marvel is to be alive. For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive. Whatever the unborn may know, they cannot know the beauty, the marvel of being alive in the flesh. The dead may look after the afterwards. But the magnificent here and now of life in the flesh is ours, and ours alone, and ours only for a time. — D.H. Lawrence

When we have a corporation, we must know what the customer wants, what the customers needs. Also, the politician must know what the people want, what the people need. — Joko Widodo

Political correctness is the the inability to state certain truths because they may offend certain people — Dennis Prager

He looks like someone definitely broke his crayons.

- inescapable — Amy A. Bartol

I'm willing to work with all parties to reform Indonesia. — Joko Widodo

Indonesia is the world's third-largest democracy. And we also have the world's largest Muslim population. This demonstrates that democracy and Islam are not incompatible. Terrorism is not associated with any religion. — Joko Widodo

When bad news sells, money politics buys. — Toba Beta

Whatever we do, don't let's have any running. Especially not before supper; and not too soon after it neither. — C.S. Lewis

When President Nixon declared war on drugs on June 17, 1971, about 110 people per 100,000 in the population were incarcerated. Today, we have 2-3 million prisoners: 743 people per 100,000 in the population. The U.S. has 5% of the world's population, but 25% of its prisoners. As Senator Jim Webb once put it, Either we are home to the most evil people on earth or we are doing something different and vastly counterproductive. — Maia Szalavitz

There are lots of countries that are having these kinds of internal civil wars in other parts of the world and nobody is talking about intervening. — Colin Powell

To deal with radicalism and extremism, we need to deal with economic inequality. This is what I learned from my experience in Solo and then in Jakarta. — Joko Widodo

We need peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region. It is important to have political and security stability to build up our economic growth. — Joko Widodo

If our zeal were true and genuine we should be much more angry with a sinner than a heretic. — Joseph Addison

For me, democracy must deliver a better life for the people. — Joko Widodo

The greenhouse effect I am knowing;
To protest right now I am going,
But oh my gee whiz,
I'm going that is,
If only it ever stops snowing. — Alan Cook

I went, and knelt, and scooped my hand
As if to drink, into the brook,
And a faint figure seemed to stand
Above me, with the bygone look. — Thomas Hardy

A field tends of itself to multiply. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

When the goal of political action is no longer the defense of liberty, no word other than demagoguery can describe the despicable nature of politics. — Ron Paul

I don't mind being called a puppet. But I'm the puppet of the people. — Joko Widodo

I'd love to be a pop idol. Of course, my groupies are now between 40 and 50. — Kevin Bacon

At its best, the expression crucified God reminds us that the power of all life, God, faces and suffers some of the worst that a creature can endure and emerges with newfound power, strength, and hope. What is sacralized or made holy is not suffering but the facing and endurance of suffering with hope and life. — Mark Lewis Taylor

In my opinion, the most important thing in governance is management control. — Joko Widodo

It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom. — Joko Widodo