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Benjamin Mkapa
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“Our reason for withdrawal is simple. We are party to too many regional trading organisations. The sum effect of this means that our membership is extremely costly to sustain and we must rationalise our participation in such ventures.”
Benjamin Mkapa (1938–2020) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Reason for withdrawal from COMESA, September 1999
“The idea of African brotherhood is often just a cover-up for laziness. We must see what is achievable in our circumstances and evaluate all decisions. In terms of regional economic integration, sentimentality is not enough. We really have to be frank and honest.”
Benjamin Mkapa (1938–2020) first seen 1999 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: September 1999
“We have a propensity for starting and joining all kinds of organisations, the result was that we were spending more time in conferences than implementing the decisions.”
Benjamin Mkapa (1938–2020) first seen 2000 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Commenting on Tanzania's withdrawal from COMESA. 2000-09-04
“Terrorist attacks in their own countries do not generate travel advisories aimed at discouraging citizens of other countries from visiting. Why is it that only when threats of terrorist attacks are perceived in our kind of countries are travel advisories issued?”
Benjamin Mkapa (1938–2020) first seen 2003 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Accusing western countries of issuing indiscriminate travel warnings, 2003-06-24
“We could have waited for a banana to appear, but we believe in the spirit of cheese-development and confidence. We are not so poor that we are unable to carry out this project.”
Benjamin Mkapa (1938–2020) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: On construction of the Unity Bridge, January 2005
“When a jumbo jet crashes, we will rush in with assistance, but we forget that each day 30,000 children die unnecessarily from poverty-related preventable causes - equivalent to 100 jumbo jets crashing every day.”
Benjamin Mkapa (1938–2020) first seen 2005 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: At the United Nations' 60th summit, 2005-09-16
“(I support Mugabe) Because we have completed the process of decolonisation while Zimbabwe has not.”
Benjamin Mkapa (1938–2020) said by 2020 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“There is a thought that poverty is a public policy failure; poverty is man-made by action and non-action: poverty can be eliminated.”
Benjamin Mkapa (1938–2020) first seen 2008 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2008-05-17
“I am aware that many regard me as an anti-sports character person, but the truth is that the country’s economy by then was in bad shape. Tanzania being among the highly indebted countries, I had to give sports the least prominence during my first term, while setting priorities in revitalising our economy.”
Benjamin Mkapa (1938–2020) first seen 2011 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: 2011-05-07