Idi Amin

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

It’s not for me. I tried human flesh and it’s too salty for my taste.

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

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

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

You cannot run faster than a bullet.

I am the product of the masses of my country and the product of my enemy.

Don’t tell me what you value. Show me your budget and I’ll tell you what you value.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

Thus, the twentieth century marks the turning-point from the old capitalism to the new, from the domination of capital in general to the domination of finance capital.

Unfortunately, you can’t vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place

Our new Soviet constitution will, in my opinion, be the most democratic constitution of all those existing in the world.

Europe has found itself confronted with fresh challenges – challenges of a global character, the nature of which is directly connected with changes in the international climate and the difficulties of seeking new models for co-operation.

Each position, each metre of the Soviet territory must be stubbornly defended, to the last drop of blood. We must cling to every inch of Soviet soil and defend it to the end!

Well, I think everybody is frustrated by the finances of the U.N. and the inability to solve problems of war and peace.

We don’t pass by on the other side.

Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born.

The only way we could get what most of the population wants with regard to health care is either by a large-scale popular movement, which would mean moving towards democracy and nobody in power is going to want that, or else if the business community decides that it’s good for them.

For those who stubbornly seek freedom, there can be no more urgent task than to come to understand the mechanisms and practices of indoctrination. These are easy to perceive in the totalitarian societies, much less so in the system of ‘brainwashing under freedom’ to which we are subjected and which all too often we serve as willing or unwitting instruments.

A certain inequality in regard to property still exists in a socialist society. But in a socialist society there is no unemployment, no exploitation, no oppression of nationalities.

So the idea that Europe should exploit Africa for Europe’s reconstruction passed without comment. This is just deeply imbedded in the consciousness of what’s sometimes called white supremacy which is an extraordinary doctrine.