JACOB ZUMA

As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.

Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

The majority in this country have not seen anything wrong with Zuma. I go with the overwhelming feeling of this country. If the majority say, 'Zuma, do this,' I will do it.

Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.

There is no cloud above my head - there is not even a mist.

When I joined the ANC, I never thought I would be anything. In no way, did I say, 'One day I could be the president. I think I am good material for the presidency.' Not at all.

People are constantly applying double standards. Take the United States, for example. Washington wants the whole world to admire the country for its democracy. Then the government sends out its army, in the name of this democracy, and leaves behind the kind of chaos we see in Iraq.

We saw in him what we seek in ourselves.

My view is instead of political discussions, persuasions, which dominate democracy, in our country we have taken our democracy to the other extreme. There is no debate, sufficient debate. There is court debate.

We have a history in South Africa of an entrenched white monopoly capital.

I don't think, in a country, you can have people thinking and feeling exactly the same.

I am forever indebted to the ANC, the liberation movement I have served almost all my life.

Judgments that give an impression that we can disregard the Constitution for political expediency, or to solve what we regard as current problems, set a dangerous precedence which will make it difficult to govern in future or to make ordinary citizens to abide by the Constitution.

I have fought corruption.

In government, things do not move too quick. That is why I am trying to introduce a new culture: so that things move more quickly.

In no country are all the people factory owners. The majority are workers.

Radical socio-economic transformation is a policy of the ANC. As a leader of the ANC, you have to implement the policy. When I talk about radical socio-economic transformation, it's not my thing; it's an ANC policy.

None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line.

You don't just end up with freedom when you have the vote. The struggle continues.

Our people are frustrated when we spend more time fighting among ourselves than focusing on solving the day-to-day challenges they experience.

I'm a very honest politician.

My love of South Africa is not gray; it's not vague. It's very specific. It's in keeping with our Constitution - 'Unity in diversity.'

Theft and corruption in the private sector is as bad as that in government and must be dealt with decisively by law enforcement agencies.

I fear no motion of no confidence or impeachment, for they are the lawful mechanisms for the people of this beautiful country to remove their president.