"When Reagan increases the bank rate, capital flows from Western Europe to America. So if you increase the bank rate in Dar, money will flow in from the peasants. This is stupid but the IMF cannot be s…"

"Decisions made in Washington are more important to us than those made here in Dar es-Salaam. So, maybe my people should be allowed to vote in American presidential elections."

"The only way to develop is to develop ourselves."

"We, the people of Tanzania, will not allow our country to be used as a base for subversion against any other African state."

"We cannot be truly independent if we are economically dependent."