Thabo Mbeki Quotes

When I went on air and people heard my accent, they all said it was really nice to have a northern voice.

I try to represent Africa and Cameroon as well as I can.

While WHO has never had a director from Africa, no one should elect me because I am from Africa.

There are so many stories from the Midwest that should be told. L.A. tells one story, and it's often about itself.

Every president developed his own style. You know that we don't recruit them to a certain standard.

Ordinary life goes on--that has saved many a man's reason.

We have every reason to assume the worst.

People elect the President for reasons that have nothing to do with his ability to be president.

Presidents should not be exempted from the same standards of reason and evidence and justification that any other citizen or civil movement should be held to.

It was messed up, because in 1947 my family moved to Seattle and I had to get up at 5:00 o'clock in the morning to catch the ferry back to Bremerton every morning because I was Boys Club president.

I really do hope that we have a woman president in my lifetime.

This is pop music. You've got a candidate for president of the United States using it, that's hitting the biggest audience you're ever going to hit in your entire friggin' life. And you don't want that? Bullshit. That's what you want. It's not even for success or fortune, it's because that's the power of the song.

One of the great things about the United States is that when it comes to world affairs, the president obviously is the leader of the Executive Branch, the Commander-in-Chief, the spokesperson for the nation, but the influence and the work that we have is the result not just of the president, it is the result of countless interactions and arrangements and relationships between our military and other militaries, and our diplomats and other diplomats, the intelligence officers and development workers.

Maybe any action becomes cowardly once you stop to reason about it.

Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.

I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president.

Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just.

It is because I owe America more than she has ever owed me that I am a candidate for president to the United States.

As far as possible, join faith to reason.

At a recent education summit, President Obama admitted that he can't rap. When they heard, Americans said, 'Good!'

I feel like Americans have always studied nationalism as a foreign phenomenon. And now, we've got a nationalist movement in our country that has a very articulate spokesman in the senior counselor to the president [Donald Trump].

It is no accident that on the whole there was more beauty and decency to be found in the life of the small peoples, and that among the large ones there was more happiness and content in proportion as they had avoided the deadly blight of centralization.

Unlike most other people, I'm just an average person.

The reason that 'guru' is such a popular word is because 'charlatan' is so hard to spell.

In theology we must consider the predominance of authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason.