The presidency is not an office job. If I only sit in the office in Dar es Salaam, I'm not running the country. I visit the country to inspect development programmes, to inspect activities, to see how things are going, how the government agenda is being implemented, what are the teething issues.

To me, the most critical thing in agriculture is investing in the peasant agriculture, transforming peasant agriculture.

The presidency is not an office job.

At independence, Tanzania had 350,000 elephants... in 1987, there were only 55,000 elephants left.

All have the right to speak, do whatever they want in democracy, but no one will be allowed to destabilise the country or create violence.

The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument.

Brand-name drugs have no competition, since the government grants them very long, exclusive marketing rights.

American democracy depends on the public's ability to remain accurately informed on our state of affairs.