Robert Mugabe

“Zimbabwe has lots of safaris, but very few are African. Most are white-owned. In our region, we have the most safaris and animals. Our people cannot keep suffering.”

“So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.”

“Zimbabwe will never be a colony again.”

“Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change.”

“We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating.”

“We have this American president, Obama, born of an African father, who is saying we will not give you aid if you don't embrace homosexuality. We ask, was he born out of homosexuality? We need continuity in our race, and that comes from the woman, and no to homosexuality.”

“We have said the first step was to designate the land, inform the owners. And the second would be to get the responses from the owners. And this will be openly done.”

“If the choice were made, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or remain with our sovereignty and lose the membership of the Commonwealth, I would say let the Commonwealth go.”

“Our small and peaceful country is threatened daily by covetous and bigoted big powers whose hunger for domination and control of other nations and their resources knows no bounds.”

“Grooming a successor, is it an inheritance? In a democratic party, you don't want leaders appointed that way. They have to be appointed properly by the people.”

“Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer - its guarantor. The people's votes and the people's guns are always inseparable twins.”

“We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.”

“In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.”

“Cooperation and respect for each other will advance the cause of human rights worldwide. Confrontation, vilification, and double standards will not.”

“It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.”

“I have died many times. I have actually beaten Jesus Christ because he only died once.”

“We pride ourselves as being top, really, on the African ladder... We feel that we have actually been advancing rather than going backwards.”

“Some people are contriving ways and means of making us collapse.”

“People are free to campaign and they will be free to vote. There won't be any soldiers, you know, at the queues. Anyone who has the right to vote is free to go and cast his vote anywhere in his own area, in his own constituency.”

“Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!”