Kenya Quotes: Kenyan Quotes

Leadership is a privilege to better the lives of others. It is not an opportunity to satisfy personal greed.

Mwai Kibaki - Kenya

Let us reject violence and selfishness which could destroy our country's unity.

Mwai Kibaki - Kenya

May hard work, and justice, always cement our bonds of unity that we may get our country back to production.

Mwai Kibaki - Kenya

The constitution is the ultimate custodian of social will and its making should be accorded all due diligence.

Mwai Kibaki - Kenya

African women in general need to know that it's OK for them to be the way they are - to see the way they are as a strength, and to be liberated from fear and from silence.

Mwai Kibaki - Kenya

First, let me quote my 10th great grandfather Ragem, "There are movers and there are shakers. I was a mover, but you Joram is a shaker. Raila is both.

Raila Odinga - Kenya

Kenya is up and running once again. Kenya is ready to do
business.

Raila Odinga - Kenya

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

Raila Odinga - Kenya

Tsvangirai's decision to campaign in the runoff would show-how
far Mugabe and his cronies are willing to go

Raila Odinga - Kenya

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 - Kenya

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 - Kenya

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 - Kenya

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 - Kenya

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 - Kenya

Central to our Vision 2030 is that our country will be firmly interconnected through a network of roads, railways,
ports, airports, water and sanitation facilities and ICT

Raila Odinga - Kenya

President Kibaki and I are aware that we cannot do everything
overnight

Raila Odinga - Kenya

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 - Kenya

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

Raila Odinga - Kenya

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 - Kenya

We all saw what happened. Let's forgive each other so that we can move ahead and let's be our brother's keeper.

Raila Odinga - Kenya

If we have shown unity here, we can demand unity down the
line

Raila Odinga - Kenya

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 - Kenya

I am working to make sure we don't only protect the environment, we also improve governance.

Wangari Maathai - Kenya

In a few decades, the relationship between the environment, resources and conflict may seem almost as obvious as the connection we see today between human rights, democracy and peace.

Wangari Maathai - Kenya

It is important to nurture any new ideas and initiatives which can make a difference for Africa .

Wangari Maathai - Kenya

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.

Wangari Maathai - Kenya

It's the little things citizens do. That's what will make the difference. My little thing is planting trees.

Wangari Maathai - Kenya

Some say that AIDS came from the monkeys, and I doubt that because we have been living with monkeys from time immemorial, others say it was a curse from God, but I say it cannot be that.

Wangari Maathai - Kenya

There's a general culture in this country to cut all the trees. It makes me so angry because everyone is cutting and no one is planting.

Wangari Maathai - Kenya

We are very fond of blaming the poor for destroying the environment. But often it is the powerful, including governments, that are responsible.

Wangari Maathai - Kenya

We need to promote development that does not destroy our environment

Wangari Maathai - Kenya

Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve

Wangari Maathai - Kenya

A number of scientists with greatly different backgrounds can come up with completely different assessments. The discussions or controversies are endless. Once a year, we try to bring the most important discoverers together to exchange their experiences and knowledge.

Richard Leakey - Kenya

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia , anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance

Richard Leakey - Kenya

Earlier, 100,000 elephants lived in Kenya and we didn't have any noteworthy problem with it. The problem that we have is not that there are now more elephants

Richard Leakey - Kenya

Elephants can live to an age of up to 70 or 80 years and they have a good memory. It could be they come across an area that is experiencing a drought. Then they continue on their path and run into people

Richard Leakey - Kenya

For fossils to thrive, certain favorable circumstances are required. First of all, of course, remnants of life have to be there. These then need to be washed over with water as soon as possible, so that the bones are covered with a layer of sediment

Richard Leakey - Kenya

I can't think of any other region in the world which is such a vast source of fossils.

Richard Leakey - Kenya

I would hazard a guess that we have found fossilized human remains of at least a thousand different specimens in South and East Africa , more or less complete at that. I think this is where the prelude to human history was primarily played out.

Richard Leakey - Kenya

I, too, am convinced that our ancestors came from Africa .

Richard Leakey - Kenya

It is virtually impossible to control Northern Kenya , which is populated chiefly by migrant nomads

Richard Leakey - Kenya

One should not forget that there are very few surviving items from this period, often just single, small bones, a tooth, a sliver of the skull. Categorizing these pieces can be very difficult.

Richard Leakey - Kenya

Paleoanthropology is not a science that ends with the discovery of a bone. One has to have the original to work with. It is a life-long task.

Richard Leakey - Kenya

Sadly, I am not able to take part in the fieldwork myself so much anymore, as both of my legs were amputated following an airplane crash twelve years ago.

Richard Leakey - Kenya

Scientific innovations continually provide us with new means of analyzing the finds.

Richard Leakey - Kenya

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.

Richard Leakey - Kenya

The land is not in the least bit fertile and yet the cattle herds grow larger and larger. A cow represents capital investment here.

Richard Leakey - Kenya

The problem is that during the 1980s, a decade of heavy poaching, the elephants retreated to safer areas. And now people have moved into the corridors once used by the elephants.

Richard Leakey - Kenya

To investigate the history of man's development, the most important finds are, of course, hominid fossils

Richard Leakey - Kenya