29 Quotes by Jakaya Kikwete

The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam, I'm not running the country. I visit the country to inspect development programmes, to inspect activities, to see how things are going, how the government agenda is being implemented, what are the teething issues.

We promise to respect people of all creeds: those who are Christians, Muslims as well as those who have decided not to follow any religion.

To me, the most critical thing in agriculture is investing in the peasant agriculture, transforming peasant agriculture.

We need to conduct a public debate on this issue.

The opposition should look seriously into reasons that led them to be rejected by the people. To show our good faith in promoting the culture of opposition (politics) in this country, I am going to set up a ministry to look into government and opposition relations.

At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.

If people want to get into leadership through corrupt practices, through corrupt means, I think that's detestable; we have to take action.

The presidency is not an office job.

There were times when there were riots in Africa, demonstrations against the IMF because of the policy advice they were giving, the conditionalities they were imposing, and the difficulties that arose out of the implementation of those conditionalities.