Anc's Quotes

#1. Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

Desmond Tutu

#2. This document [the Reconstruction and Development Programme] was translated into a simpler manifesto called 'A Better Life for All', which in turn became the ANC's campaign slogan.

Nelson Mandela

#3. The ANC, we believe, stands at the head of the whole liberation front, the whole Mass Democratic Movement.

Joe Slovo

#4. We need a universally accepted definition of reserves reporting.

Fatih Birol

#5. I used to think I actually was Batman.

Justin Timberlake

#6. We have to change the perception that ANC members are corrupt just because of a few greedy individuals.

Zweli Mkhize

#7. Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

#8. Although Verwoerd thought Africans were lower than animals, his death did not yield us any pleasure. Political assassination is not something I or the ANC ever supported. It is a primitive way of contending with an opponent

Nelson Mandela

#9. The ANC party from time to time comes with legislation which, if accepted and if not nullified by the constitution of court, would have the effect of undermining the constitution and eroding its values.

F. W. De Klerk

#10. I have voted for the ANC, but I would very sadly not be able to vote for them after the way things have gone,

Desmond Tutu

#11. The ANC is very concerned (about shedding votes), hence they are pinning their hopes that those rogue elements will run the elections, so rigging will be on the high. There is no doubt about that

Bantu Holomisa

#12. God expects the ANC to rule this country because we are the only organisation which was blessed by pastors when it was formed. It is even blessed in Heaven. That is why we will rule until Jesus comes back. We should not allow anyone to govern our city [Cape Town] when we are ruling the country.

Jacob Zuma

#13. Do whatever you can that doesn't compromise your morals.

Penny Marshall

#14. Our thinking tends to be hazy, hasty, narrow, or sprawling-causal terms for impulsive. Just like anything else, thinking skills require upkeep. If they aren't nourished, they'll fade away.

David Perkins

#15. The ancestors will turn their backs against you and you will have bad luck forever if you leave the ANC unhappy

Jacob Zuma

#16. The opposite of a problem would likely be the correct solution.

Joey Lawsin

#17. After graduation, we can just ... ride into the sunrise," he says. "The sunrise?" His lips twitch. "If we ride into the sunset, we'd wind up in the middle of the Pacific.

Heather Demetrios

#18. It is wrong to leave the ANC, in fact, it is cold and rough outside the ANC. People must remain in the party and try to fix things internally because those who do leave they will attract the wrath of the ancestors, who will also bring that person bad luck

Jacob Zuma

#19. It's disappointing being a Canadian and having friends on that team but that's the way it goes. It's the Olympics. It's disappointing for every Canadian but over the years you've seen the parity with all the teams because it's the best players in the world.

Darren McCarty

#20. If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government.

Nelson Mandela

#21. It was ANC policy to try to educate all people, even our enemies: we believed that all men, even prison service warders, were capable of change, and we did our utmost to try to sway them.

Nelson Mandela

#22. Press Freedom will never be under threat in South Africa for as long as the ANC is the majority party

Nelson Mandela

#23. The ANC will rule South Africa until Jesus comes back.

Jacob Zuma

#24. Having been in the presidency from the time of Mandela to that of Zuma, I am one of the privileged few who has seen it all, rather than hearing it via the grapevine. The challenge is say 'the things I could not say' in a responsible way that helps the country to move forward rather than backwards.

Frank Chikane

#25. I'm happy to be a card-carrying member of the ANC.

Nadine Gordimer

#26. For me, a good children's book is a good children's book is a good children's book.

LeVar Burton

#27. No one person can be above the ANC. He can't be.

Jacob Zuma

#28. When I joined the ANC, I never thought I would be anything. In no way, did I say, 'One day I could be the president. I think I am good material for the presidency.' Not at all.

Jacob Zuma

#29. Those who vote for the ANC will be blessed on earth and heaven

Jacob Zuma

#30. I've covered a couple wars and a lot of breaking news and a lot of cops-and-robbers situations.

John King

#31. When people are connected, we can just do some great things. They have the opportunity to get access to jobs, education, health, communications. We have the opportunity to bring the people we care about closer to us. It really makes a big difference.

Mark Zuckerberg

#32. We want to eradicate all mud schools. We are already doing so. We are not in a hurry because no one is going to rule but the ANC.

Jacob Zuma

#33. Uninformed and yet open to appeals for justice as they are, Americans are capable of reacting as they did to the ANC campaign against apartheid, which finally changed the balance of forces inside South Africa.

Edward Said

#34. For the ANC to cry 'sabotage' the night before crucial local government elections shows just how desperate they are to disguise their incompetence and mismanagement.

Helen Zille

#35. We (the ANC government) have no plans to introduce the wholesale administration of these drugs in the public sector. ARVs are not a cure for Aids.

Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

#36. I wanted to be an elementary school teacher my whole life.

Steve Wozniak

#37. Rich people are committed to being rich. Poor people want to be rich.

T. Harv Eker

#38. I remember the Food Network when it was first starting out: Emeril Lagasse and all those people who helped make it when it was on a shoestring budget. It actually encouraged me to start cooking.

Robert Battle