"I never had any formal education—not even a nursery school certificate. But sometimes I know more than Ph. D. s because as a military man I know how to act. I am a man of action."

"I am the hero of Africa."

"I have no time for democracy."

"Our deliberate policy is to transfer the economic control of Uganda into the hands of Ugandans, for the first time in our country's history."

"I am not a bloody dictator. I am a field marshal."