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  • I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.

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

    1978 Unsolicited advice to Lord Snowdon on the ending of his marriage to Princess Margaret, quoted in A Barrow International Gossip (1983).
  • 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.

    Uganda   Doctors   Sea  
    Attributed in "Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience" by Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates, 1999.
  • I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

  • I do not want to be controlled by any superpower. I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world, and that is why I do not let any superpower control me.

    Powerful   Uganda   World  
  • I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

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

    Mean   Order   Law  
  • Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

    Christopher L. Moody, Idi Amin (1977). “The wit and wisdom of Idi Amin”
  • I propose getting rid of conventional armaments and replacing them with reasonably priced hydrogen bombs that will be distributed equally throughout the world.

  • In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

    Attributed in "Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations" by Jonathon Green, 1982.
  • My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.

    Attributed in "Uganda, the Human Rights Situation" by United States Congress. Senate, (p. 13), 1978.
  • Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.

    Real   Men   Uganda  
    Attributed in "The Evil 100" by Martin Gilman Wolcott, (p. 78), 2004.
  • It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.

    Uganda   Leader   Flesh  
  • You cannot run faster than a bullet.

    Running   Military   Evil  
    Christopher L. Moody, Idi Amin (1977). “The wit and wisdom of Idi Amin”
  • I am the hero of Africa.

    Hero  
    Attributed in "Simpson's Contemporary Quotations" by James Beasley Simpson, (p. 1), 1988.
  • Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.

    Uganda   Boxing   Trying  
    Interview, African summit talks, Angola, "The Palm Beach Post" Newspaper, (p.A8), January 12, 1976.
  • Germany is the place where when Hitler was the prime minister and supreme commander, he burned over six million Jews. This is because Hitler and all German people knew that Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the world and that is why they burned the Israelis alive with gas in the soil of Germany.

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

  • The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.

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

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Idi Amin

  • Born: 1925
  • Died: August 16, 2003
  • Occupation: Former President for Life