A modern economy and society requires skilled people, so you need to train them.

- Thabo Mbeki

We should never become despondent because the weather is bad, nor should we turn triumphalist because the sun shines.

- Thabo Mbeki

Does HIV cause AIDS? Can a virus cause a syndrome? How? It can't, because a syndrome is a group of diseases resulting from acquired immune deficiency.

- Thabo Mbeki

Many of our own people here in this country do not ask about computers, telephones and television sets. They ask - when will we get a road to our vil…

- Thabo Mbeki

If you don't understand history, you will not be able to deal with today's issues.

- Thabo Mbeki

I think you're a much happier person if you say 'Even if I get involved in politics, I'm only doing so in order to serve the people'. You will sleep …

- Thabo Mbeki

Our experience over the last 20 years has shown that indeed people must themselves become their own liberators. You cannot wait for somebody else to …

- Thabo Mbeki

The problem is not a lack of understanding of what we are saying and doing; the problem is difference of opinion about what to do.

- Thabo Mbeki

When will the day come that our dignity will be fully restored, when the purpose of our lives will no longer be merely to survive until the sun rises…

- Thabo Mbeki