The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam I'm not running the country.

If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.

Africa needs access to markets.

Roads are the blood vessels of the economy.

Justice has to be done, justice must be seen to be done, what the AU is simply saying is that what is critical, what is the priority, is peace. That is priority number one now.

At independence, Tanzania had 350, 000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55, 000 elephants left.

The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace--

It is good to pray even if you do not believe in God.

Like the coffin was settling down for a long, long nap, for a forever nap.

Whoso sheddeth man's blood by a man shall his blood be shed.

The charm, one might say the genius, of memory is that it is choosy, chancy and temperamental.

The man that thinks he loves his mistress for her own sake is mightily mistaken.

The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.

Daytime sleep is a cursed slumber from which one wakes in despair.

Iraq has lost 5 percent of its population, a number that in the U.S. would equal 14 million people.