Idi Amin

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

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me.

I am the hero of Africa.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world.

One of your tasks is to separate the “personal” from the “substantive.” The two can become confused, especially if someone rubs the President wrong.

We need to be very careful. Democracy is the issue, and democracy ought to be the means by which we decide these issues, rather than secret negotiations resulting in a fait accompli being presented to us.

Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mindsets of the youth of today.

The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

I think that the centralisation of access to information through the few major corporations that by now virtually monopolise information transmission, like Facebook, Google, Amazon, is extremely dangerous.

If inflation continues to soar, you’re going to have to work like a dog just to live like one.

Don’t say “the White House wants.” Buildings can’t want.

While President Bush likes to project an image of strength and courage, the real truth is that in the presence of his large financial contributors, he is a moral coward.

As the Cold War came to a definitive end, the Bush Administration created a Center for Defense Trade to stimulate arms sales while proposing government guarantees of up to $1 billion in loans for purchase of US arms.

According to what you’re taught in economics courses, our system is based on free markets with entrepreneurial initiative and rational choices by informed consumers. Well, the reality is radically different.

Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia.

Reduce the number of lawyers. They are like beavers – they get in the middle of the stream and dam it up.

I think the only difference between me and the other candidates is that I’m more honest and my women are more beautiful.

Politics is human beings; it’s addition rather than subtraction.

In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up.