Idi Amin

His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.

The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.

Politics is like boxing – you try to knock out your opponents.

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.

My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.

The unjustified swelling of the budgetary deficit and the accumulation of public debts are just as destructive as adventurous stock-jobbing.

Tough love is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

No one should be allowed to violently trample on the law.

Public servants are paid to serve the American people. Do it well.

[Mexico] ripping off the US more than almost any other nation

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

Kim Jong Un just stated that the Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger and more powerful one than his, and my Button works!

I love to go to Washington, if only to be nearer my money.

It is time to show the whole world that America is back – bigger and better and stronger than ever before.

I do not want to be controlled by any superpower. I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world, and that is why I do not let any superpower control me.

Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we’ll be scared of them, it means they have won.

To forgive the terrorists is up to God, but to send them to him is up to me.

We won with poorly educated. I love the poorly educated.

Not only were [the British] able to break into China for the first time, but also the profits from opium supported the Raj, the costs of the British Navy, and provided very significant capital which fueled the industrial revolution in England.

Does it mean I agree with Hamas and what it does? No. Does it mean I agree with Hezbollah and what they do? No. What it means is that I think to bring about a peace process, you have to talk to people with whom you may profoundly disagree … There is not going to be a peace process unless there is talks involving Israel, Hezbollah and Hamas and I think everyone knows that.