Quotes from Idi Amin

Politics is like boxing - you try to knock out your opponents.

I want to be remembered as a great athlete. As a boxing champion.

I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.

You cannot run faster than a bullet.

The problem with me is that I am fifty or one hundred years ahead of my time. My speed is very fast. Some ministers have had to drop out of my government because they could not keep up.

I am the hero of Africa.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

It's not for me. I tried human flesh and it's too salty for my taste.

I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

Your experience will be a lesson to all of us men to be careful not to marry ladies in very high positions.

Although some people felt Adolf Hitler was bad, he was a great man and a real conqueror whose name would never be forgotten.

I'm a good Muslim and I'm only interested in Islam.

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech