Idi Amin quotes

Born
c. 1923–1928 Koboko, Uganda Protectorate.

Died
16 August 2003.

Occupation
Statesman.

Idi Amin was a Ugandan politician and military officer. He was the President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin was born either in Koboko or Kampala to a Kakwa father and Lugbara mother. In 1946 he joined the King’s African Rifles (KAR) of the British Colonial Army.

You cannot run faster than a bullet.
– Idi Amin

Politics is like boxing – you try to knock out your opponents.
– Idi Amin

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.
– Idi Amin

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

I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world.
– Idi Amin

I am the hero of Africa.
– Idi Amin

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

It’s not for me. I tried human flesh and it’s too salty for my taste.
– Idi Amin

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

I have to keep law and order and it means that I have to kill my enemies before they kill me.
– Idi Amin

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.
– Idi Amin

I do not want to be controlled by any superpower. I myself consider myself the most powerful figure in the world, and that is why I do not let any superpower control me.
– Idi Amin

There is freedom of speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.
– Idi Amin

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

I love the Americans. They are my best friends.
– Idi Amin

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

I’m a good Muslim and I’m only interested in Islam.
– Idi Amin

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.
– Idi Amin