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Quotes by President
"When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
119
"May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace."
79
"If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost."
76
"The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today."
69
"One man with courage makes a majority."
54
"If there is a doubt, I believe that I must put myself forward and undergo the people's judgment."
49
"At times, we were forced to go through a history of dependence, unable to determine our own destiny. But today, we are at the threshold of a new turning point."
39
"With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses."
38
"In my day, the president ruled with authority before the law, but now all that is lost."
37
"I want to encourage our people, to educate our people to have the courage to understand and fight for their rights."
36
"To Koreans on the other side, we care about your freedom."
35
"It's very certain that North Korea is developing nuclear weapons for offensive purposes. They don't need nuclear weapons to defend their own country."
34
"I've never heard an agency say, 'Unless you industrialize I will not support you'."
34
"We are a people who can bring about miracles if united."
34
"Let us make future generations remember us as proud ancestors just as, today, we remember our forefathers."
30
"Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health."
30
"None of the parties want this conflict to go on."
30
"I feel very sorry for the one or two North Korean defectors who were caught by Chinese police while entering South Korean or foreign embassies in Beijing, but their arrest drew the whole attention of the world."
30
"Once a major military confrontation occurs, North Korea will definitely be annihilated."
30
"Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."
29
"Even if we encounter some shameful events in the past, we shouldn't avoid or hide them."
28
"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"
28
"No doubt it was better to have become president than not."
28
"Competition is not only the basis of protection to the consumer, but is the incentive to progress."
27
"We must regain the confidence and drive to decide our own destiny."
26
"The blood and sweat shed by United States and United Nations troops proved to be the prime mover behind the realisation of freedom throughout the post-war period."
26
"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
26
"Only our individual faith in freedom can keep us free."
26
"I reached a situation in which I cannot conduct the presidency."
26
"Patriotism is easy to understand in America. It means looking out for yourself by looking out for your country."
25
"Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion."
24
"In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock."
24
"I don't think the current regime of South Korea will deal actively with the issue of North Korean defectors."
Will,
24
"Israel was not created in order to disappear - Israel will endure and flourish. It is the child of hope and the home of the brave. It can neither be broken by adversity nor demoralized by success. It carries the shield of democracy and it honors the sword of freedom."
23
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
23
"When people speak to you about a preventive war, you tell them to go and fight it. After my experience, I have come to hate war."
23
"Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter."
23
"All great change in America begins at the dinner table."
23
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