Tun Abdul Razak Hussein

Selected Quotes

"Kita hendaklah mempunyai keyakinan kepada sains dan teknoloji moden tanpa membelakangkan kewajipan-kewajipan kita sebagai manusia yang beriman."
- Petaling Jaya , 1972

"Sebagai wakil Kerajaan, Penghulu-penghulu dikehendaki menjalankan berbagai tugas untuk melicinkan pentadbiran negara."
- Kuala Lumpur, 1975

"Your Code of Ethics exhorts you to always bear in mind your obligation as a citizen of your nation, your state and your community, and to give to them your answering loyalty in words, act and in deed."
- Kuala Lumpur , 1960

"My vision of the development machine of government, as all of you know, is to turn Government officers, in every single department connected with development, into an effective human machine, all working together, with one heart and one mind, focused on one single purpose - service to our people."
- Kuala Lumpur, 1968

"Development is like a four dimension film; pure hard and fast economics and economic theory are not enough. One has got to take into consideration equally important aspects, the human aspect, the social aspect and the political aspect."
- Kuala Lumpur, 1967

"Despite the rhetoric of many third world leaders, the sense of insecurity from which these states and more particularly, their regimes-suffer, emanates to a substantial extent from within their boundaries rather than from outside."

"The reason why I am laying such stress on the importance of "Red Book" projects is that we, all of us, know, that the real success in the development of the rural areas lies in the hearts and minds of the rural people themselves, and I intend to call upon the people to play their part to the full, when I launch Phase II of our - Rural Development Programme"

"I should like you to realise and remember, that in our National Five-Year Plan we must make sure that many millions of dollars to be spent on development are in fact diverted towards true development so that our National money is in fact a proper investment towards progress."