IDI AMIN

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.

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

I love the Americans. They are my best friends.

I am the hero of Africa.

I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.

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

I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

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

You cannot run faster than a bullet.

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

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

They are entitled to their rightful share in running the country.

If I find you not attending cabinet meetings three times you are out of government.

Everybody must love their leader. Most important you must teach people to love their leader. Teach them to love their ministers [officials of the government].

Everybody must be removed [from public office] who has the mentality of the capitalist.

Politics is like boxing — you try to knock out your opponents

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.

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.