Yoweri Museveni Quotes

One of Museveni's defining early pronouncements was his diagnosis of Africa's problem. Africa's problem, he would say, was leaders who did not want to leave power.

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• Actual Victorian mores and politics were a reaction to a specific series of historical events, technological and scientific developments, and ethical trends in which the commodification of people was de rigueur.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • People
  • Politics
  • Ethical

• So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • War
  • Strong
  • Leadership

• I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Wish
  • Question
  • Tired

• Western enthusiasm for democracy stops when those opposed to its policies are elected to office.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Democracy
  • Enthusiasm

• It is the easiest thing in the world to die. The hardest is to live.

  

  Eddie Rickenbacker
  • World
  • Live
  • Die

• September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • Up
  • Past
  • Hate

• Lighter computers and lighter sensors would let you have more function in a given weight, which is very important if you are launching things into space, and you have to pay by the pound to put things there.

  

  Ralph Merkle
  • Important
  • Space
  • Computers

• We were all so different, temperamentally from one another, it's impossible to believe that we were together for so long. The cast and crew. How could we be more different from one another? It's difficult to imagine. But something lovely came of it.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Long

• The better I am at observing moments in life, the better I'll be at showing them in my acting.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Life
  • Moments
  • Acting

• I'm in a monogamous relationship and very happy.

  

  Frances Bean Cobain
  • Happy
  • Relationship
  • Very

• Sometimes when you play a golf course for the first time, you just got to be committed to your targets.

  

  Camilo Villegas
  • Time
  • Sometimes
  • Golf

• When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Free
  • Like
  • Market

• With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Up
  • School
  • Friends

• True virtue is life under the direction of reason.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Life
  • True
  • Direction

• You are doomed to make choices. This is life's greatest paradox.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Choices
  • Greatest

• I have a love for boxing.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
  • Love
  • Boxing

• Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • School
  • Home
  • Career

• I mean, I can get things done if I need to, but I can really be completely irresponsible and procrastinate until the very, very, very bitter end. In fact, sometimes I work better under pressure.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Work
  • Done
  • End

• I didn't know box office was a thing you could possess but I don't have it. I go up for lovely roles and people with this nebulous thing called box office get them so there isn't much I can do about that unless you know where I can get some box-office myself!

  

  Olivia Williams
  • People
  • Up
  • Myself

• I was born in L.A., then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to New York, then we moved to Baltimore, then we moved to California, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to Texas, then we moved to Hawaii, then we moved to California. This was before I was 17.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • California
  • New York
  • Texas

• Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.

  

  Bonnie Blair
  • Long
  • Lost
  • Competition

• Maybe the universe is a giant practical joke and we don't know the punchline.

  

  John Lloyd
  • Universe

• Since I travel to the four corners of this planet for work, I don't need sun holidays or that kind of thing.

  

  Ben Elliot
  • Work
  • Travel
  • Sun

• One of Museveni's defining early pronouncements was his diagnosis of Africa's problem. Africa's problem, he would say, was leaders who did not want to leave power.

  

  Yoweri Museveni
  • Power