The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam I'm not running the country.

The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam I'm not running the country.

We cannot continue to mourn about our country being poor while our minerals are lying untapped and with harvesting at Lake Natron, we will not be the first to do so, because our neighbours, Kenya, are doing the same on the other side of the lake.

There were times when there were riots in Africa, demonstrations against the IMF because of the policy advice they were giving, the conditionalities they were imposing, and the difficulties that arose out of the implementation of those conditionalities.

If somebody gives you his money, definitely he will be interested in knowing how you spend the money.

There are no demands - undue demands... There are many questions we get? Why China? Why now and the answer is why not?... There is no any hidden agenda in our cooperation with China, it is a relationship based on mutual understanding and equality; they understand our situation.

Africa needs access to markets.