Quotes About Raila Odinga

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

Raila Odinga

#2. The Old Testament teaches us that if we humble ourselves and pray, God will hear from heaven and heal our land. And the New Testament assures us that the fervent prayers of righteous men can make a difference.

David Jeremiah

#3. but when you choose your family, you get to choose how it is between you, too.

Patrick Ness

#4. By our day, self-restraint was considered madness.

Mark Sayers

#5. 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

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

Raila Odinga

#7. He had forgotten that grief does not decline in a straight line or along a slow curve...almost as if his body contained a big pile of garden rubbish full of both heavy lumps of dirt and of sharp thorny brush that would stab him when he least expected it.
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Helen Simonson

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

Raila Odinga

#9. 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

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

Raila Odinga

#11. There are more Muslims in North America then Jews Now.

Dan Rather

#12. But truth is like a thrashing-machine; tender sensibilities must keep out of the way.

Herman Melville

#13. 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

#14. You asked me about love. I don't know about love, Daphne. I just know I don't want anything but you. I don't want to be anywhere but with you.

Brenna Yovanoff

#15. 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

#16. 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

#17. 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

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

Raila Odinga

#19. We see how much a man has, and therefore we envy him; did we see how little he enjoys, we should rather pity him.

Jeremiah Seed