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

Idi Amin

Quoted in The Evil 100 (2004) by Martin Gilman Wolcott, p. 78.
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“Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking. 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.”

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Appears in Barbet Schroeder (1974), General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait.

“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

Quoted in Morrow's International Dictionary of Contemporary Quotations, 1982, Jonathon Green.
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“Politics is like boxing — you try to knock out your opponents.”

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Interview, African summit talks, Angola, January 1976. Reported p.A8, Palm Beach Post, January 12, 1976.

“You cannot run faster than a bullet.”

Idi Amin

Quoted in The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-Liners (2004) by Geoff Tibballs, p. 51.
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“I am the hero of Africa.”

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Quoted in Simpson's Contemporary Quotations, by James Beasley Simpson, p. 1.
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“My mission is to lead the country out of a bad situation of corruption, depression and slavery. After I rid the country of these vices, I will then organize and supervise a general election of a genuinely democratic civilian government.”

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Source: Quoted in Uganda, the Human Rights Situation (1978), by United States Congress. Senate, p. 13 - Civil rights - 1978.

Country

“His Excellency, President for Life, Field Marshal Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth and Fishes of the Seas and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular.”

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His full, formal title, which he conferred upon himself. Quoted inAfricana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience (1999) by Anthony Appiah and Henry Louis Gates
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Life , Fish , Sea

“Hitler and all German people knew that the Israelis are not people who are working in the interest of the people of the world and that is why they burnt over six million Jews alive on the soil of Germany. The world should remember that the palestinians, with the assitance of Germany made the operation possible in the Olympic village.”

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Telegram sent to Kurt Waldheim in 1972 after the Munich massacre.
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People , World

“Introduction to a Discovery Channel documentary about Idi Amin.”

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“He is killer and clown, big-hearted buffoon and strutting martinet.”

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Uganda. Amin:The Wild Man of Africa, March 07, 1977, Time magazine.

Heart

“Racist, erratic and unpredictable, brutal, inept, bellicose, irrational, ridiculous, and militaristic.”

Idi Amin

About Amin's regime. Telegram 1 From the Embassy in Uganda to the Department of State, January 2, 1973, 0700Z, U.S. Ambassador Thomas Patrick Melady. US Department of State http://web.archive.org/web/20060610225514/http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/nixon/e6/66834.htm.

“Amin is a splendid man by any standards and is held in great respect and affection by his British colleagues. … He is tough and fearless and in the judgment of everybody … completely reliable. Against this he is not very bright and will probably find difficulty in dealing with the administrative side of command.”

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OG Griffith, 1969 despatch on Amin's promotion to major, released by Public Record Office. Amin hailed as splendid, but not very bright, June 23, 2000, Richard Norton Taylor, The Guardian.