mbeki Quotes
Daily selection of quotes about mbeki.
“Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our village.”
- Thabo Mbeki
“As a consequence of the victories we have registered during our first ten years of freedom, we have laid a firm foundation for the new advances we must and will make during the next decade.”
- Thabo Mbeki
“We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history, enjoyed such a confluence of encouraging possibilities.”
- Thabo Mbeki
“The poor prey on one another because their lives offer no hope and communicate the tragic message to these human beings that they have no possibility to attain a decent standard of living.”
- Thabo Mbeki
“I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.”
- Thabo Mbeki
“If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.”
- Thabo Mbeki