Idi Amin: Man

Idi Amin was third president of Uganda. Explore interesting quotes on man.

Idi Amin: 26 quotes 14 likes

“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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People

“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.”

Idi Amin

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

People , Education , School , Way

“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.”

Idi Amin

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.