Zimbabwe Quotes - Page 2

• I think it is its time for the leaders of Africa to say to President Mugabe that the people of Zimbabwe's deserve a free and fair election.

  Raila Odinga

  Thinking, People, Leader

  "Mbeki meets with Zimbabwe's embattled leaders" by Nkepile Mabuse, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2008.

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• The matter of who governs Zimbabwe is a matter that is in the hands of the people of Zimbabwe.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Hands, People, Matter

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• Tanzania is standing by the people of Zimbabwe including President Mugabe... Mugabe is there, he is president, he has been elected. If Tanzania had simply said, stupid, you're hopeless, a murderer, a violator of basic human rights; does that remove Mugabe from office? It doesn't.

  Jakaya Kikwete

  Stupid, Rights, Office

  Interview with Financial Times, April 10, 2007.

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• The cumulative effects of the economic and financial sanctions might well bring the rebellion to an end within a matter of weeks rather than months.

  Harold Wilson

  Might, Matter, Months

  'The Times' 13 January 1966

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• The things had been made a half a dozen times from silent pictures through the '30s and '40s. In fact, I think there's a version in the '50s. And then, of course, Spielberg eventually did a version of The Lost World, but this [filming] was '91, I think. And we shot it in Zimbabwe.

  Eric McCormack

  Thinking, Half, World

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• The matter of who governs Zimbabwe is a matter that is in the hands of the people of Zimbabwe. The matter of who governs the people of South Africa is in the hands of the people of South Africa.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Hands, People, Matter

  Source: www.gov.za

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• Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government.

  Bill Gates

  Government, Giving, Mugabe

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• It is my view that it is a big embarrassment for Africa . It is hypocritical for African leaders to talk about democracy and human rights and to be silent when these things are happening in Zimbabwe .

  Raila Odinga

  Rights, Views, Leader

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• Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe.

  John Bolton

  Country, America, Albania

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• The anti-imperialist, forces in the country [Zimbabwe] here, I think are not that strong. The capitalist forces, the reactionary forces are far more formidable, far better organised. But we would have wanted to hear the voice of the anti-imperialist forces, those who espouse the cause of freedom, the cause of independence, everywhere.

  Robert Mugabe

  Country, Strong, Thinking

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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• I think that the movement is weak in Zimbabwe, much weaker than it is in Italy for example, much weaker than it is in Spain, much weaker than it is even in Germany, although there the groups are small they are very vociferous and you get them speaking loudly and organising.

  Robert Mugabe

  Thinking, Groups, Spain

  Source: www.revolutionarycommunist.org

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• If the situation in Zimbabwe continues to deteriorate, Britain will argue for Zimbabwe's suspension from the Commonwealth at the Commonwealth Heads of Government meeting in March.

  Jack Straw

  Government, Arguing, March

  "UK threat to punish Mugabe" by Andrew Meldrum and Ewen MacAskill, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2002.

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• Russia is certainly no longer a free country. We are moving in the direction of Zimbabwe.

  Andrey Illarionov

  Country, Moving, Russia

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance.

  Jabari Asim

  Memories, Struggle, Character

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• Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl.

  Ilana Mercer

  Dust, Bowls

  "The Genocide in Democratic South Africa". www.wnd.com. January 19, 2007.

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• People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Hero, Zambia, People

  "Mugabe's Hold on Africans". Interview with Peter Biles, news.bbc.co.uk. August 25, 2007.

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• I don't want the United States to be in a global economy where our economic future is bound to that of Zimbabwe. We can't necessarily trust the decisions that are being made financially in other countries.

  Michele Bachmann

  Country, Decision, United States

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• It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The AIDS orphans in Uganda, the refugee fleeing Zimbabwe, the young woman who has been trafficked into the sex trade in Southeast Asia. It has been hard, yet this assistance together with the compassionate work of private charities, people of conscience and people of faith, has shown the soul of our country.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Sex, Uganda

  Condoleezza Rice's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, www.foxnews.com. August 29, 2012.

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• I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales.

  Philip Pullman

  Australia, England, My Family

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• I've worked with farmers in Zimbabwe who've lost their lands. I've worked with people in Venezuela, under threat of kidnappings, whose external world is unstable. But they have very strong social connections with their family and friends. And as a result, they're able to maintain a greater level of happiness and optimism than I've seen from bankers, consultants, or salespeople who are on the road all the time, who follow jobs separated from their families, and, as a result, find themselves missing out on the happiness that comes from those very connections that they severed.

  Shawn Achor

  Strong, Jobs, Land

  Source: www.independent.co.uk

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• The most impactful place that Ive been to where I was just completely awestruck, happy, moved is Victoria Falls between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is probably the most beautiful and romantic place in the world.

  Hill Harper

  Beautiful, Fall, Zambia

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• What is the worst, is that you will have the meltdown of Zimbabwe that the IMF is talking about. And indeed what you will have is growing unemployment in Zimbabwe, growing impoverishment among the people, growing social conflict. And I think that is the worst sort of outcome, that collapse of Zimbabwe certainly would have a much, much worse effect on the region than mere image.

  Thabo Mbeki

  Thinking, Talking, People

  Source: www.nelsonmandela.org

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• When I first arrived in beautiful Zimbabwe, it was difficult to understand that 35 percent of the population is HIV positive. It really wasn't until I was invited to the homes of people that I started to understand the human toll of the epidemic.

  Kristen Ashburn

  Beautiful, Home, Epidemics

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• I would like to get out to the region in the Caspian sea. I would like to go there. I would like to get to Darfur. I would like to get to Khartoum in Northern Sudan. I would like to get to Zimbabwe. I would like to go back to North Korea, if I could. I would like to go to Yemen. I would like to get to Kashmir. Most of those destinations I will get to.

  Henry Rollins

  Korea, Sea, Kashmir

  Interview with Danny Stygion, www.sinicalmagazine.com. October 1, 2011.

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• Zimbabwe's stock market was the best performer this decade - but your entire portfolio now buys you 3 eggs

  Kyle Bass

  Eggs, Portfolios, Performers

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