Idi Amin

I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

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.

You cannot run faster than a bullet.

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.

I’m a good Muslim and I’m only interested in Islam.

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

Fascism is a caricature of Jacobinism.

I’m one of those that believes you can’t be one kind of a man and another kind of president.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.

The key element of social control is the strategy of distraction that is to divert public attention from important issues and changes decided by political and economic elites, through the technique of flood or flooding continuous distractions and insignificant information.

The first role of government is to help people who are in crisis or need. That’s why we have government.

Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it back has no brain.

[on Donald Trump] seems determined to add to the dangers [in the global situation] by recklessly escalating the confrontation with North Korea, unilaterally launching missile strikes on Syria, opposing President Obama’s nuclear arms deal with Iran and backing a new nuclear arms race.

Business power is very far from benign and it’s completely unaccountable. It’s a totalitarian system that has an enormous effect on our lives. It’s also the main reason why the government isn’t benign.

I believe in the cosmos. All of us are linked to the cosmos. So nature is my god. To me, nature is sacred. Trees are my temples and forests are my cathedrals. Being at one with nature.

Once his wife goes to sleep it takes a minor nuclear explosion to wake her.

The only reason I don’t use the word class is that the terminology of political discourse is so debased it’s hard to find any words at all. That’s part of the point — to make it impossible to talk.

I shall be an autocrat: that’s my trade. And the good Lord will forgive me: that’s his.

The U.S….will continue to defend U.S.-based corporate and financial interests while seeking to maintain a global environment in which they can flourish. That requires, in particular, that the Third World be kept in its service role.

No honest journalist should be willing to describe himself or herself as ’embedded.’ To say, ‘I’m an embedded journalist’ is to say, ‘I’m a government Propagandist.

Descriptive grammar is an attempt to give an account of what the current system is for either a society or an individual, whatever you happen to be studying.