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  • So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe. -- Robert Mugabe
  • Well, no one gives aid to Zimbabwe through the Mugabe government. -- Bill Gates
  • Russia is certainly no longer a free country. We are moving in the direction of Zimbabwe. -- Andrey Illarionov
  • The white man is not indigenous to Africa. Africa is for Africans. Zimbabwe is for Zimbabweans. -- Robert Mugabe
  • Obama sees America as another country on the UN role call. Somewhere between Albania and Zimbabwe. -- John Bolton
  • The people of Zimbabwe have a responsibility to ensure that the government that they elected behaves properly. -- Thabo Mbeki
  • Well in the end the world can crank itself up to sanctions, as it has with Zimbabwe, another sad case. -- Helen Clark
  • Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen. -- Robert Mugabe
  • If President Barack Obama wants me to allow marriage for same-sex couples in my country (Zimbabwe), he must come here so that I marry him first. -- Robert Mugabe
  • I think it is its time for the leaders of Africa to say to President Mugabe that the people of Zimbabwe deserve a free and fair election. -- Raila Odinga
  • I went to Zimbabwe. I know how white people feel in America now; relaxed! Cause when I heard the police car I knew they weren't coming after me! -- Richard Pryor
  • If you print money like in Zimbabwe... the purchasing power of money goes down, and the standards of living go down, and eventually, you have a civil war. -- Marc Faber
  • To any honest observer, Zimbabwe's sin is that it has taken the position to right a wrong, whose resolution has been too long overdue--to return its land to its people. -- Cynthia McKinney
  • Zimbabwe is a lost country. There is no money in Zimbabwe, everything stands still. The economy of the country is in shambles, the inflation is the highest in this world. -- Thomas Mapfumo
  • I strongly support European sanctions against Mugabe and his ruling clique. We must do all in our power to help the people of Zimbabwe achieve their freedom and prosperity once again. -- Peter Hain
  • Our economy is a hundred times better, than the average African economy. Outside South Africa, what country is [as good as] Zimbabwe? ... What is lacking now are goods on the shelves-that is all. -- Robert Mugabe
  • 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
  • We have fought for our land, we have fought for our sovereignty, small as we are we have won our independence and we are prepared to shed our blood.... So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe. -- Robert Mugabe
  • My view is that the time has come for the international community to act on Zimbabwe in the way that it did in Bosnia - I do not think that we are going to get free and fair elections in Zimbabwe -- Raila Odinga
  • 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
  • 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
  • If I went back to Zimbabwe, I am not afraid of the police or the soldiers. I am afraid of those elements which are being used by the regime. People who have nothing, I mean, who don't care whether they are paid $50 to kill someone, they could just do it for. -- Thomas Mapfumo
  • Having travelled to some 20 African countries, I find myself, like so many other visitors to Africa before me, intoxicated with the continent. And I am not referring to the animals, as much as I have been enthralled by them during safaris in Kenya, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Rather, I am referring to the African peoples. -- Dennis Prager
  • Zimbabwe, once the breadbasket of Africa, is now its dust bowl. -- Ilana Mercer
  • Zimbabwe's stock market was the best performer this decade - but your entire portfolio now buys you 3 eggs -- Kyle Bass
  • The matter of who governs Zimbabwe is a matter that is in the hands of the people of Zimbabwe. -- Thabo Mbeki
  • I was born in Norwich in 1946, and educated in England, Zimbabwe, and Australia, before my family settled in North Wales. -- Philip Pullman
  • We expected anyway that the democratic forces which have agreed with us in Zimbabwe would have rallied behind us. But it was a difficult struggle. -- Robert Mugabe
  • ...the current Human Rights Commission's working group is made up of the Netherlands, Hungary, Cuba, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe. No, I'm not making that up. -- Andrew Sullivan
  • 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
  • For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in trouble. -- Michael Ignatieff
  • 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
  • The economic and social decline of Zimbabwe is shocking and appalling. Life there is unrecognisable from that of the recent past. Each day is a struggle for basic survival. -- Lucy Powell
  • The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies. -- Samantha Power
  • 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
  • The most impactful place that I've 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
  • 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
  • Studies conducted in a city in Zimbabwe found that half of reported rape cases involve girls less than 15 years of age and that girls are most vulnerable to sexual abuse by male relatives, neighbors and school teachers. -- Njovana Watts
  • The voice of Mr Bush and the voice of Mr Blair can't decide who shall rule in Zimbabwe, who shall rule in Africa, who shall rule in Asia, who shall rule in Venezuela, who shall rule in Iran, who shall rule in Iraq, -- Robert Mugabe
  • 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
  • Set it up in Zimbabwe, Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny, And in this judgment there is no partiality. So arm in arms, with arms, we'll fight this little struggle, 'Cause that's the only way we can overcome our little trouble. -- Bob Marley
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