Yoweri Museveni famous quotes

07-08-2025

I don't pick up people. This is the work of the police. If there's anybody with a case, it's the police, not me.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#People #Police #Cases
The soldiers feel that the Police are not serious with the criminal elements and that they are corrupt. The army had to come in and insist that criminals must be punished. It happens in all countries, there is a time when the army assumes the duty of internal security.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#Country #Army #Police
Some people think that being in government for a long time is a bad thing. But the more you stay, the more you learn. I am now an expert in governance.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#Thinking #Government #Long
I don't know about torture. I have educated myself on many things but on torture I have not known the boundary between what is torture and what isn't torture. I know the NRA tie these people (rebels, etc.) when they catch them. They tie their hands backwards. I am now being told that is torture. It is the traditional method.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#Hands #Ties #People
I have made revenue collection a frontline institution because it is the one which can emancipate us from begging. If we can get about 22% of GDP we should not need to disturb anybody asking for aid; instead of coming here to bother you, give me this, give me this, I shall come here to greet you, to trade with you.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#Gdp #Giving #Needs
Some intelligence officers filed reports saying that this is a dangerous group, but at one level it was not forwarded, it was just ignored,
-- Yoweri Museveni

#Levels #Groups #Ignored
Since our region is endowed with a lot of natural resources, including reasonable supplies of fresh water, we need and we can work together to ensure this area against these vicissitudes.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#Water #Together #Needs
The island is in Kenya, the water is in Uganda... But the [Luos, a Kenyan ethnic group] are mad, they want to fish here but this is Uganda.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#Uganda #Islands #Mad
One of the emphases of the new democratic order is no impunity.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#Order #Emphasis #Democratic
You cannot, for instance, sustainably protect the environment if the majority of the people are still in primitive agriculture leading to the encroachment of forest reserves.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#Agriculture #People #Forests
I shall not be deterred by people who don't see where the future of Africa lies. It is the short-sighted people who put their opinions in writing. They don't understand that the future of all countries lies in processing.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#Country #Lying #Writing
I've never heard an agency say, 'Unless you industrialize I will not support you.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#Agency #Support #Heard
When we sell a kilo of bean coffee in Uganda, we get one dollar per kilo. The same kilo, when it is processed [and sold in Britain], goes for $10, $11 or even more a kilo. That is the same situation [price disparity] that goes for all raw materials.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#Coffee #Uganda #Dollars
Africa is wealthy in natural resources; the problem is they are not optimally utilized.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#Problem #Natural #Resources
What is the Geneva Convention on wars! I have never read it.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#War #Conventions #Geneva Convention
We used to fight the LRA with only one dimensional force that only walks on foot, but now, we have got multiple forces to fight the rebels.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#Fighting #Feet #Rebel
None of the parties want this conflict to go on.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#Party #Want #Goes On
May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#Rest In Peace #Long #Soul
In the areas which have been disturbed people are living cordially with the Security Forces. In areas like Gulu people are living peacefully. There is scrupulous respect of human rights.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#Rights #People #Force
I did not, I could not and I will never invite Obote, ... This is because Obote is someone who made a lot of mistakes in our history.
-- Yoweri Museveni

#Mistake #Made

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