Raila Odinga Quotes

• Musalia [Mudavadi] was created by [Daniel Toroitich arap] Moi and given his seat after his father's death since Musalia's was one of Moi's key men and a beneficiary of the grand corruption of the day. I am aware of this but I recognize that I cannot get perfect partners, and truly my friends; there is an election to be won.

  Raila Odinga

  Father, Men, Keys

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• You don't want to live in the past. Everything in life is in the future. You don't want to continue to be buried in the past.

  Raila Odinga

  Past, Want, Life Is

  Source: concernedkenyan.blogspot.com

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• You cannot forget the past but you can forgive it.

  Raila Odinga

  Past, Forgiving, Forget The Past

  Source: concernedkenyan.blogspot.com

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• At independence Kenya's economic indicators were equal to those of South Korea, but 45 years down the road, Korea's economy is 40 times that of Kenya. The mediocrity of leadership is across the continent .

  Raila Odinga

  Korea, Years, Independence

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• The stone throwing and house burning is no longer a face of Kenya . Kenya is now a destination for investment and tourism.

  Raila Odinga

  House, Tourism, Kenya

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• Gone are the days when African leaders used to misrule their people and the rest of Africa was quiet under the guise of what was called non-interference.

  Raila Odinga

  People, Leader, Gone

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• You cannot have free and fair elections while one party controls completely and monopolizes the instrument of power and .. Tsvangirai is in and out of police cells almost on a daily basis, when people are being arrested, people are being beaten up.

  Raila Odinga

  Party, Cells, People

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• The mediocrity with which Africa has been ruled is responsible for its underdevelopment.

  Raila Odinga

  Mediocrity, Responsible, Underdevelopment

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• Musalia [Mudavadi] has a much weaker character in person than [Musikari] Kombo, and you know the joke about humble Luhya servants as cooks and watchmen...Anyway, jokes aside, Luhya disunity is a blessing for us and I would never have wanted it any other way.

  Raila Odinga

  Humble, Character, Blessing

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• In the US after the Great Depression, they invested heavily in infrastructure to create a lot of employment. In Germany after the war there was the Marshall plan for roads, rail, housing, energy, water and so on. That created massive employment after the devastation of the war and helped them to rebuild the country.

  Raila Odinga

  Country, War, Water

  Source: concernedkenyan.blogspot.com

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• Sometimes people like to take risks.

  Raila Odinga

  People, Risk, Sometimes

  Source: concernedkenyan.blogspot.com

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• Since the Moi era, or 'error' as I call it, prime jobs have been stuffed with semi-literate Kalenjin herdsmen. I imagined that Mwai Kibaki would correct this but in fact he maintained many of them, and those he sent home were replaced by his kleptocratic tribesmen.

  Raila Odinga

  Jobs, Home, Errors

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• I congratulate the outgoing Nigeria President Mr Goodluck Jonathan for his grace in conceding defeat.

  Raila Odinga

  Grace, President, Defeat

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• What has happened in the past is a lot of good policies have been developed on paper, but you find they are not implemented. So there is a disconnect between rhetoric and practice.

  Raila Odinga

  Past, Practice, Paper

  Source: concernedkenyan.blogspot.com

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• Had the Luhyas united, my plans would have been impossible to fulfil .

  Raila Odinga

  Impossible, United, Plans

  Source: africanpress.wordpress.com

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• The Vision 2030 is aimed at transforming Kenya from a struggling third-world economy into a second world economy - We do believe that it is a realizable objective; we don't believe that it is utopia. We know that it has been done in some.

  Raila Odinga

  Believe, Struggle, Vision

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• It is my view that it is a big embarrassment for Africa . It is hypocritical for African leaders to talk about democracy and human rights and to be silent when these things are happening in Zimbabwe .

  Raila Odinga

  Rights, Views, Zimbabwe

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• The economy is best revived through heavy investment in infrastructure.

  Raila Odinga

  Investment, Economy, Infrastructure

  Source: concernedkenyan.blogspot.com

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• The changes I envisage and that I have promised to address within my first 90 days in office are; Dismantling the cabals of tribalism that are choking our country and resulting in runaway corruption and frustration for the people of Kenya.

  Raila Odinga

  Country, Frustration, People

  Source: africanpress.wordpress.com

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• It is a big embarrassment that a leader can say on the eve of an election that he cannot hand over power to an opponent, that he can only hand over power to a member of his political party.

  Raila Odinga

  Party, Hands, Leader

  "Kenya's leader urges peacekeepers in Zimbabwe". www.cnn.com. June 24, 2008.

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• If someone like Musalia [Mudavadi ] ruled Kenya, he would not be able to effect the radical changes I talk about.

  Raila Odinga

  Kenya, Able, Radical Change

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• I think it is its time for the leaders of Africa to say to President Mugabe that the people of Zimbabwe's deserve a free and fair election.

  Raila Odinga

  Thinking, Zimbabwe, People

  "Mbeki meets with Zimbabwe's embattled leaders" by Nkepile Mabuse, www.cnn.com. June 18, 2008.

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• I will not interfere with the courts at all. For now,[William] Ruto is a political necessity, but you know in politics we do have blind loyalties and if we are to win this battle, we have to use all options available.

  Raila Odinga

  Loyalty, Winning, Political

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• The matter of bringing in corrupt leaders was started by [Mwai ] Kibaki, and in truth, do not be surprised if you find that the likes of William Ruto find themselves behind bars after the elections, because he has cases pending against him.

  Raila Odinga

  Leader, Bars, Matter

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• My view is that the time has come for the international community to act on Zimbabwe in the way that it did in Bosnia. I do not think that we are going to get free and fair elections in Zimbabwe.

  Raila Odinga

  Thinking, Zimbabwe, Views

  "Foreboding rises over Zimbabwe". news.bbc.co.uk. June 19, 2008.

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