Raila Sayings

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

Raila Odinga

#2. Oh no. You wanted to be turned around and fucked like a bad girl. Now you'll say the bad words that go along with it. Tell me what you want.

Tessa Bailey

#3. This is the fundamental principle when it comes to day-to-day execution: Do what's important first, not last.

Matt Perman

#4. The strength and vitality of an empire is frequently due to the new aristocracy from the periphery.

Ronald Syme

#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. Tents are boasters, telling exaggerated tales of the weather they save you from.

Mark Lawrence

#8. From my weakness, I drew strength that never left me.

Jorge Luis Borges

#9. 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

#10. So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are.

Barack Obama

#11. 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

#12. You want to lay yourself out like an appetizer, go ahead.

Hunter Shea

#13. 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

#14. 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

#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. In the desire of the One to know Himself,
We exist.

Rumi

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

Raila Odinga

#20. People love freedom - but nobody wants responsibility. And they come together, they are inseparable.

Rajneesh

#21. There has to be solidarity among the artists, songwriters and all the creative forces within that circle in order for the necessary changes to take place and for each person to get what is rightfully due.

Oleta Adams