Robert Mugabe

Zimbabwean leader

Contemporary influential 122 sayings

Sayings by Robert Mugabe

The revolution is alive and well.

2010 — Speech
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

I am still kicking.

2017 — Interview on his 93rd birthday
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

I am as fit as a fiddle.

2014 — Interview on his 90th birthday
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

We have no apologies to make.

2000 — Speech
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The only white man you can trust is a dead white man.

2000 — Speech at a political rally
Strange & Unusual Confirmed

Gays are worse than dogs and pigs. Dogs and pigs will never engage in homosexual madness.

2013 — Public statement on homosexuality
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

Tony Blair should go to hell, hell, hell!

2007 — UN General Assembly speech
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

We are not hungry. Why foist this food upon us? We don’t want to be choked. We have enough.

2002 — Rejecting Western food aid during a famine
Strange & Unusual Unverifiable

The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans.

2000 — Speech on land reform and white farmers
Controversial Unverifiable

Gays are worse than pigs and dogs. If dogs and pigs don't do it, why must human beings?

2013 — Interview on homosexuality
Controversial Unverifiable

If you are fat, you are not a good revolutionary.

2007 — Criticizing obese party members
Controversial Unverifiable

Tony Blair and his gay gangsters can go hang.

2003 — Attack on British PM Tony Blair over sanctions
Controversial Unverifiable

Let the people eat rats if they like, or beetles, or frogs.

2008 — Response to food shortages
Controversial Unverifiable

We are not gays! We have a culture, we are Africans!

2015 — UN General Assembly speech attacking Western values
Controversial Unverifiable

The British can go to hell. And if they don’t like it, they can drink their own water.

2008 — Response to UK criticism
Controversial Unverifiable

I will never, never, never surrender. Zimbabwe is mine.

2008 — Election campaign speech
Controversial Unverifiable

The MDC will never, ever be allowed to rule this country—never ever. Only God, who appointed me, will remove me.

2008 — Threat against opposition party
Controversial Unverifiable

Blair is an arrogant little man, a liar, a hypocrite, and a murderer.

2007 — Attack on Tony Blair
Controversial Unverifiable

If the choice is between surrender and starvation, we will choose starvation.

2002 — Defying Western sanctions
Controversial Unverifiable

We don’t mind having sanctions banning us from Europe. We are not Europeans.

2002 — Response to EU sanctions
Controversial Unverifiable