Odinga Raila Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

The mediocrity with which Africa has been ruled is responsible for its underdevelopment. — Raila Odinga

The limitless jet-lag purgatory of Immigration and Baggage at Heathrow. — Monica Dickens

When you are not near me, I make the sound of one hand clapping. — Dan Fogelberg

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

There's not a lot of precedent for weird, bald musicians in the Lower East Side making records in their bedrooms and going on to sell a lot of copies of the record. Especially if you look at the pop climate. — Moby

I congratulate the outgoing Nigeria President Mr Goodluck Jonathan for his grace in conceding defeat. — Raila Odinga

The reader cannot even begin to see the sense of a story that may well seem to him a very wild one, until he understands that to this great mystic his religion was not a thing like a theory but a thing like a love-affair. — G.K. Chesterton

Ask any soldier. To kill a man is to merit a woman. — Jean Giraudoux

The stone throwing and house burning is no longer a face of Kenya . Kenya is now a destination for investment and tourism. — Raila Odinga

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

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