Critics and supporters alike remember Robert Mugabe as a fiery orator. Here are some of his best quotes:
Cricket civilises people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.” – Undated
Let the MDC and its leadership be warned that those who play with fire will not only be burnt, but consumed by that fire.” – During a 2003 election rally
“We are not hungry… Why foist this food upon us? We don’t want to be choked. We have enough.” – During an interview with Sky TV in 2004, amid widespread food shortages
“Don’t drink at all, don’t smoke, you must exercise and eat vegetables and fruit.” – From an interview on his 88th birthday in 2012
“(Nelson) Mandela (South Africa’s first black president) has gone a bit too far in doing good to the non-black communities, really in some cases at the expense of (blacks)… That’s being too saintly, too good, too much of a saint.” – During a 2013 state TV interview.
