I look forward working with the new parliament as together we grapple with the pressing challenges of improving the livelihood of our people and developing our nation,

Our cities and towns . . . had become havens for illicit and criminal practices and activities that just could not be allowed to go on.

Having restored land to the people, … We have learnt a host of lessons, all pointing to the challenge of ensuring food security for the people.

I can’t spell Dell, but I can spell hell, and he might be there one of these days,

The prophets of doom are prophets of doom. Their prophecies are doomed,

lower than dogs and pigs.

You describe our country as if it is a graveyard,

If the choice was made for us, one for us to lose our sovereignty and become a member of the Commonwealth or to remain with our sovereignty and lose membership of the Commonwealth, then I...

The new authorities have expressed willingness for us to continue our support. We are offering this support especially for security.

insist on being world policemen on the management of the Internet.

As Africans, we need to ensure that our security systems are inter-twined. There are different areas of mutual interest we are going to develop.

Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime...

quarters that should know better.

The Cubans are being punished with sanctions in the same way we are,

All genuine and well meaning white farmers who wish to pursue a farming career as loyal citizens of this country will have land to do so.

But these nimble joys and aches aside, the greatest winner, you will agree, was our democratic process.

In most recent times, as the West started being hostile to us, we deliberately declared a Look East policy.

There is no food crisis even as we speak, … What worries us is the fact the our crop has failed us because of the rain, of the drought, and we are not the only...

I come before you in a moment and mood of national pride and joy tempered with a sense of humility,

Where is the Zimbabwe-famous Habitat? … Why should it maintain ominous silence? For here is real work of the homeless for it?

redressing the past gross imbalances in land ownership, which were institutionalized by British colonialism.

All is well that ends well. We are very happy that all the issues were well discussed.

Let today be a day of renewal of our common determination, commitment and resolve to ensure that peace wins in the DRC,

The results are out, and these do bind us all, loser and winner alike.

could go to hell.

It may be necessary to use methods other than constitutional ones.

We are going to give material support to Angola to put an end to this war,

We have come to the conclusion that we have to re-examine other means to put an end to the aggression in Congo,

So, Blair keep your England, and let me keep my Zimbabwe.

I think his expectations have been met.

We are no longer going to ask for the land, but we are going to take it without negotiating,

These imperialist countries have unashamedly abused the power of the media by hypocritically portraying themselves as philanthropists and international saviors of victims of various calamities,

land redistribution and land reform.

They have remained silent about the shocking circumstances of obvious state neglect surrounding the tragic Gulf Coast disaster. A whole community of mainly nonwhites was deliberately abandoned to the ravages of Hurricane Katrina as sacrificial...

Our votes must go together with our guns. After all, any vote we shall have, shall have been the product of the gun. The gun which produces the vote should remain its security officer –...

Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen

We want the fighting to stop,

We of Africa protest that, in this day and age, we should continue to be treated as lesser human beings than other races.

We will proceed with current land reform with or without sanctions, … Let that position be known here and abroad and let the commercial farmers tell that to their constituency or constituencies overseas.

The exercise created some difficulties for individuals and families accommodated in informal settlements, … We could not have allowed that settlement to go on any longer together with the illegal activities which thrive on such...

We have sought to address this inequity, … And what has been the response from former imperialist quarters? Staggering beyond description. My government, my party and my own person have been labeled land grabbers, demonized,...

Must we allow these men, the two unholy men of our millennium, who in the same way as Hitler and Mussolini formed (an) unholy alliance, formed an alliance, to attack an innocent country?

We have never been friends of the IMF and in the future we will never be friends of the IMF,

Stay with us, please remain in this country and constitute a nation based on national unity.