On the The AIDS Epidemic: This is a war. It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous wars and in all previous natural disasters ... We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying.

Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

Resentment is like a glass of poison that a man drinks; then he sits down and waits for his enemy to die.

Greece is the mother of democracy and South Africa is its youngest daughter

If you make one gift this year, make it the gift of knowledge.

We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined.

I watched, along with all of you, as the tens of thousands of our people stood patiently in long queues for many hours. Some sleeping on the open ground overnight waiting to cast this momentous vote.