Yoweri Museveni Quotes

True, other countries are helping us. Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.

Peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations,—entangling alliances with none.

China has established friendship with many African countries, and is opening itself up to Africa and providing assistance. It is cooperating with African countries on an equal basis and has no desire to colonize Africa.

If some nation says to us, 'You can have aid, but you have to end confrontation,' then I say, 'Go to hell with your aid.'

On the day I became Soviet leader, in March 1985, I had a special meeting with the leaders of the Warsaw Pact countries and told them: 'You are independent, and we are independent. You are responsible for your policies, we are responsible for ours. We will not intervene in your affairs, I promise you.'

But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.

Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.

If I find the person that I love, it is because I love them, not because I will be dependent on them.

I am a very independent person, and I, you know, I maintain that independence, but, you know, certain things - I mean, it takes, you know, it's just much easier for other people if other people can help you every now and again.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

The Libyans gave us everything I asked for.

For every effort we make to assist someone beyond our own borders, we take something away from our own

If you want our aid, you must call us to your Councils.

I see a free and independent kingdom delivering up that which all the world hath been fighting for, since the days of Nimrod, to wit, a power to manage their own affairs by themselves without the assistance and counsel of any other.

Hope nothing from foreign governments. They will never be really willing to aid you until you have shown that you are strong enough to conquer without them..

Afghanistan cannot be a burden on the international community and it has to become an asset.

Autonomy leads to empowerment. We work hard to maintain a balance between collaboration and cooperation and independence.

We are ready and open to a dialogue with all sides, all parties and all countries that respect the sovereignty and the territorial integrity of Belarus.

Then there are three or four countries that have said they won't do anything. I believe Libya, Cuba and Germany are ones that have indicated they won't help in any respect.

The U.S. and Canada are two generous governments and we reach out and partner with anyone who believes in foreign aid.

Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.

If you are waging peace, you can't be too particular sometimes about the special attitudes that different countries take. We were a young country once, and our whole policy for the first 150 years was, we were neutral.

German economic salvation has been brought about solely through the efforts of the German people and the experience they have gained. Countries abroad have contributed nothing to this.

In the unity of our nations rests the glorious future of our peoples.

The American people are not naifs who yearn for isolationism, but they are starting to ask some hard questions about the way we have been doing business for 50 years, and it may well be time to grant the French, Canadians, Germans, Turks, South Koreans, and a host of others their wishes for independence from us: polite friendship - but no alliances, no bases, no money, no trade concessions, and no more begging for the privilege of protecting them.