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.

I've made a lot of money, and more importantly, I've saved a lot of money.

What we have to be careful is that if we drop interest rates where the rate of interest is lower than inflation, then savers will not put money in financial savings and move it to gold and real estate, which is bad for India.

I didn't really enjoy being at college, because I was putting myself through college. We just didn't have the money. I was responsible for that, so I was constantly looking for scholarships, grants, and work-study opportunities.

Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.