Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu wa Zabanga war von 1965 bis 1997 Präsident der Demokratischen Republik Kongo . Mobutu herrschte in einer der längsten und korruptesten Diktaturen Afrikas.
„Für die nächsten fünf Jahre wird es keine parteipolitischen Aktivitäten geben.“
nach der Machtübernahme im Kongo; New York Times: Anatomy of an Autocracy: Mobutu's 32-Year Reign http://partners.nytimes.com/library/world/africa/051797zaire-mobutu.html, 17. Mai 1997, abgerufen am 11. April 2010; Übersetzung: Wikiquote <br class="br">Original engl.: "For five years, there will be no more political party activity in the country." <br class="br">Zugeschrieben
Mobutu, in response to claims by the Belgian media that he was taking Belgian aid for himself. Harden, p. 52
“Who taught us corruption? I believe it was you, frankly… It's an import.”
In an interview with a French reporter, as featured in "Mobutu: King of Zaire."
Attributed
November 30, 1973, on the eve of "Zairianization". Zaire: A Country Study, "Zairianization, Radicalization, and Retrocession" http://lcweb2.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?frd/cstdy:@field(DOCID+zr0044)
George B. N. Ayittey, Africa Betrayed, p. 65
George B. N. Ayittey, Africa in Chaos, p. 113
“When you are a soldier, either you surrender or you are killed. But you don't flee.”
Mobutu, vowing to resist the Kabila rebellion. Meredith, p. 535
November 25, 1977. D.J. Gould, "Patrons and Clients: The Role of the Military in Zaire Politics," in Isaac Mowoe, ed., The Performance of Soldiers as Governors, p. 485
“If I could do it all again, I'd be a farmer.”
Mobutu to his national security advisor, Honoré Ngbanda, "the Terminator". Meredith, p. 532
“Between a brother and a friend, the choice is clear.”
Mobutu announcing the break in diplomatic relations between Zaire and Israel at the United Nations Security Council, November 4, 1973. Young and Turner, p. 138
Mobutu, on his friendship with George H. W. Bush. Meredith, p. 308
Mobutu explaining the reasons behind his November 1965 coup. Young and Turner, p. 42
Mobutu, asked by a German journalist to justify the expense of his Concorde while the nation's economy was in crisis. Meredith, p. 532
Mobutu to congressman Mervyn Dymally, 1988. Elliot and Dymally, p. 25
Young and Turner, p. 211
Sean Kelly, America's Tyrant: The CIA and Mobutu of Zaire, p. 194
“It takes two to corrupt – the corrupted and the corrupter.”
Developments.org http://www.developments.org.uk/data/issue30/together-now.htm <br class="br">Attributed
Mobutu explaining his foreign policy. Elliot and Dymally, p. 51
D.J. Gould, "Patrons and Clients: The Role of the Military in Zaire Politics," in Isaac Mowoe, ed., The Performance of Soldiers as Governors, p. 485
when asked by the New York Times, "Do American military supplies go through Zaire to Savimbi in Angola?", Kelly, p. 4
Gbadolite: The Versailles of The Jungle https://www.amusingplanet.com/2020/09/gbadolite-versailles-of-jungle.html
