Able Quotes by Thabo Mbeki

We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines.

— Thabo Mbeki

That surely must be a concern to anyone who decides this drug must be given to stop transmissions, again from mother to child, which…

— Thabo Mbeki

We are not being arrogant or complacent when we are said that our country, as a united nation, has never in its entire history,…

— Thabo Mbeki

I think that probably the most important thing about our education was that it taught us to question even those things we thought we…

— Thabo Mbeki

What we are saying is that we need to consolidate the capacity to lend support. Because, one of the problems that's mentioned with regard…

— Thabo Mbeki

I say that why don't we bring all points of view. Sit around a table and discuss this evidence, and produce evidence as it…

— Thabo Mbeki

As Africans, we need to share common recognition that all of us stand to lose if we fail to transform our continent.

— Thabo Mbeki

I think you're a much happier person if you say 'Even if I get involved in politics, I'm only doing so in order to…

— Thabo Mbeki

I must say, with regard to Equatorial Guinea, the Government of Equatorial Guinea, as soon as they had arrested these people, sent a delegation…

— Thabo Mbeki

We are in the process of negotiating an agreement with the United States. We will be negotiating agreements with India and China. We are…

— Thabo Mbeki

“Her work sought to challenge all of us critically to reflect on the things we find comfort in believing without question.”

— Thabo Mbeki

Of course we run a very open economy, and therefore what happens in the rest of the world, in economic terms, obviously has an…

— Thabo Mbeki

Part of the issue around communal land, which became a matter of controversy, is that we are saying that this land must go back…

— Thabo Mbeki

Historically during the years of the White minority regimes, the State, the national Government held this land in trust for these communities. We said,…

— Thabo Mbeki

We want the National Intelligence, we want the Police, we want the Scorpions, any other institutions, the tax people, and so on, the totality…

— Thabo Mbeki