Yahya Jammeh

“Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.”

“My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.”

“Every Westerner is jubilating that the Berlin Wall has fallen. Something worst than the Berlin Wall is in Palestine; and nobody is talking about it.”

“When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.”

“Homosexuality is anti-humanity.”

“Our forefathers used to live longer and healthy lives.”

“If I want to ban any newspaper, I will, with good reason.”

“You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.”

“Some people go to the West and claim they are gays and that their lives are at risk in the Gambia, in order for them to be granted a stay in Europe.”

“I don't believe in killing people. I believe in locking you up for the rest of your life.”

“My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah. I will deliver to the Gambian people and if I have to rule this country for one billion years, I will, if Allah says so.”

“I am not a witch doctor, and in fact, you cannot have a witch doctor. You are either a witch or a doctor.”

“Apartheid was in South Africa; now it has been transferred to Palestine.”

“Today, the origin of 90% of all the edible food Gambians consume are from places they have never heard of.”

“The missile that downed the Malaysian plane, they say, is a Russian-made missile. But the weapons that are used in the barbarism in the barbaric act against the Palestinians were made by the West, and nobody is blaming them. Nobody talks about it; not even the U.N. Security Council can pass a resolution against Israel!”

“Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.”

“Homosexuals are not welcome in the Gambia.”

“Most of the sicknesses we suffer from are from the things we eat.”

“I will develop the areas that vote for me, but if you don't vote for me, don't expect anything.”

“Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.”