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1722 President Quotes

I cannot change the past. But I can change the present and the future.

Past Change Present Future
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I have heard and read references to me as a ‘former dictator’… I take responsibility for anything that happened under my watch.

Read Under Take Watch
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I bear no ill will against anyone on past events. Nobody should fear anything from me. We are not after anyone. People should only fear the consequences of their actions.

Past Actions People Event
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A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue.

Fears Office Scores Past
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Let us put the recent past behind us and forget our old battles.
Battles Recent Behind Forget
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We have all the attributes of a great nation. We are not there yet because the one commodity we have been unable to exploit to the fullest is unity of purpose.

Great Exploit Unity Nation
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This generation of Nigerians and indeed the future generation have no country other than Nigeria, we shall stay and salvage it together!

Stay Future Country Together
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Our long night is over and a new dawn has come… Democracy and rule of law will be put in place.
Place Rule Long Law
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Along the way there will be success and setbacks; mistakes will be made but we will not take you for granted.

Success Mistakes Along Granted
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The work of making Nigeria great is not yet done, because I still believe that change is possible, this time through the ballot, and most importantly, because I still have the capacity and the passion to dream and work for a Nigeria that will be respected again in the comity of nations and that all Nigerians will be proud of.

Drea Passion Work Nations
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As far as the constitution allows me, I will try to ensure that there is responsible and accountable governance at all levels of government in the country. For I will not have kept my own trust with the Nigerian people if I allow others abuse theirs under my watch.

Watch People Trust Under
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Every new government inherits problems. Ours was no different. But what Nigerians want are solutions, quick solutions not a recitation of problems inherited.

Quick Inherits New Solutions
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We must change our lawless habits, our attitude to public office and public trust. We must change our unruly behavior in schools, hospitals, market places, motor parks, on the roads, in homes and offices. To bring about change, we must change ourselves by being law-abiding citizens.

Trust Roads Citizen Change
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The Federal Executive under my watch will not seek to encroach on the duties and functions of the Legislative and Judicial arms of government.

Watch Duties Arms Under
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It is only when the three arms act constitutionally that government will be enabled to serve the country optimally and avoid the confusion all too often bedeviled governance today.

Today Often Avoid Country
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We shall rebuild and reform the public service to become more effective and more serviceable. We shall charge them to apply themselves with integrity to stabilize the system.

System Apply Charge Reform
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I appeal to employers and workers alike to unite in raising productivity so that everybody will have the opportunity to share in increased prosperity.

Share Unite Appeal Worker
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We have to upgrade our dilapidated physical infrastructure. No single cause can be identified to explain Nigerian’s poor economic performance over the years than the power situation. It is a national shame that an economy of 180 million generates only 4,000MW, and distributes even less.

Power Shame Economy Single
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The amnesty programme in the Niger Delta is due to end in December, but the government intends to invest heavily in the projects, and programmes currently in place.

Place Due Intends Invest
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Justice is justice, whether it’s done in Africa or elsewhere in the world. The important thing is let justice be done, whatever evidence the prosecution has in Senegal. I think they should – you should proceed to make it available to the world and prosecute him according to international law on human rights.

Right World Proceed Africa
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I pledge myself and the government to the rule of law, in which none shall be so above the law that they are not subject to its dictates, and none shall be so below it that they are not availed of its protection.

Law Rule Pledge Dictates
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Only an organized and conscious people can bring about a different kind of society.

Organized Conscious people Different Kind
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We are learning much about the Invisible Enemy. It is tough and smart, but we are tougher and smarter!

Invisible Enemy Tough Smart
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As a citizen of this country, I've got to be honest to the people of South Africa.

Africa Citizen Country Got
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When I joined the ANC, I never thought I would be anything. In no way, did I say, 'One day I could be the president. I think I am good material for the presidency.' Not at all.

Am Anything Could Day
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We South Africans are also crazy about football, so the World Cup can be nothing but successful.

About African Also Crazy
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Criminality is always the result of poverty. Countries that experience such a fundamental change as we have - we had the apartheid regime and must now develop a multicultural democracy - must necessarily pass through a phase of high crime rates.

Always Apartheid Change Countries
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Africa suffered under European dominance for centuries.
Africa Centuries Dominance European
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There is no cloud above my head - there is not even a mist.

Above Cloud Even Head
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The majority in this country have not seen anything wrong with Zuma. I go with the overwhelming feeling of this country. If the majority say, 'Zuma, do this,' I will do it.

Anything Country Feeling Go
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You don't just end up with freedom when you have the vote. The struggle continues.

End Freedom Just Struggle
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If you grow the economy, then you become stronger, and you can resist many other things.

Become Economy Grow Many
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I fear no motion of no confidence or impeachment, for they are the lawful mechanisms for the people of this beautiful country to remove their president.

Beautiful Beautiful Country Confidence Country
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Radical socio-economic transformation is a policy of the ANC. As a leader of the ANC, you have to implement the policy. When I talk about radical socio-economic transformation, it's not my thing; it's an ANC policy.

About Implement Leader Policy
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My love of South Africa is not gray; it's not vague. It's very specific. It's in keeping with our Constitution - 'Unity in diversity.'

Africa Constitution Diversity Gray
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I don't think, in a country, you can have people thinking and feeling exactly the same.

Country Exactly Exactly The Same Feeling
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We have a history in South Africa of an entrenched white monopoly capital.

Africa Capital Entrenched History
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The economy in South Africa was racially structured for many decades, if not centuries.

Africa Centuries Decades Economy
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We are a constitutional democracy. We must deal with things properly within the framework of the law and then the constitution.

Constitution Constitutional Deal Democracy
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My view is instead of political discussions, persuasions, which dominate democracy, in our country we have taken our democracy to the other extreme. There is no debate, sufficient debate. There is court debate.

Country Court Debate Democracy
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In government, things do not move too quick. That is why I am trying to introduce a new culture: so that things move more quickly.

Am Culture Government I Am
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Theft and corruption in the private sector is as bad as that in government and must be dealt with decisively by law enforcement agencies.

Agencies Bad Corruption Dealt
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In no country are all the people factory owners. The majority are workers.

Country Factory Majority No Country
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I am forever indebted to the ANC, the liberation movement I have served almost all my life.
All My Life Almost Almost All Am
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I do take seriously and am grateful to the ANC that, in the face of its revolutionary mission to ensure a better life for all and the creation of a non-racial, non-sexist and democratic South Africa, it deployed me at the pinnacle of its role in government.

Africa Am Better Better Life
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None of us, no matter how perfect, can claim that the building of a new society and the marshalling of a former liberation movement into a modern political party all happen in a straight line.

Building Claim Former Happen
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Our people are frustrated when we spend more time fighting among ourselves than focusing on solving the day-to-day challenges they experience.

Among Challenges Day-To-Day Experience
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If we avail ourselves to serve in terms of the Constitution, we should be prepared if, indeed, those we serve deem it appropriate to suffer the hardship that comes with our constitutional obligations.

Appropriate Avail Be Prepared Constitution
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I just accept that, if my party and my compatriots wish that I be removed from office, they must exercise that right and do so in the manner prescribed in the Constitution.

Accept Constitution Exercise Just
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This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Trust Proud Fear Avoid
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