Top 99 Quotes & Sayings by Cyril Ramaphosa - Page 2

Land has been an issue of great concern to our people.

We must acknowledge that there are factions in our movements... We should not be telling lies to each other; we should tell the truth to each other with the view that there will be unity.

There is nothing wrong with students demanding free education, and, in fact, it is something that our children deserve.

We remain a highly unequal society in which poverty and prosperity are still defined by race as well as gender.

We should draw deep into Madiba's wisdom. We should draw deep into Madiba's style of doing things in an orderly manner, in a purposeful manner, in a way where we focus.

We will wash and clean the ANC, and it will be the ANC you know. The ANC that will work for the people.

Students want free education because their parents are struggling. The fees of universities and technikons are too high.

We can make this country the garden of Eden.

If you read the Freedom Charter carefully, you will find that - the clause that refers to education, and it says education must be free 'on merit.'

When I was appointed deputy president, I accepted it, and it is the president's prerogative to appoint or remove anyone to the Executive.

We've got to be moving together, working together, leading the country together, and ensuring that we achieve the objectives that our alliance has set out for itself.

What we want is for our young people to be skilled.

We need to make sure that the ANC branches are strong, that they can lead the communities we live in.

As the ANC, we have got to condemn violence as a method of addressing our differences and disputes amongst us.

We have to build further on the collaboration with business and labor to restore confidence and prevent an investment downgrade.

We should put behind us the era of diminishing trust in public institutions and weakened confidence in our country's public leaders.

We are a big economy, and we must, therefore, show that we can manage it, but not only manage it, but that can transform it so that this economy works for all of our people so that everyone feels that they have a stake in this economy.

Money has come to play a very bad role in the ANC; people's votes are bought, and patronage has become the order of the day. All those deviant tendencies need to be curbed.

We aim to restore our focus on building an economy in which all South Africans can flourish, an economy which benefits the people as a whole rather than a privileged few.

We are determined to rebuild the confidence of our people in public institutions and restore the credibility of those elected to serve them.

We must be determined to get rid of factions within the ANC. We must get rid of divisions within the ANC.

We have to have a good look at the Constitution. Let's determine where the shortcomings are. Then we can start talking of clauses.

I believe things that happen in the ANC family must be handled there.

We must not have an economy that discourages and chases away investors from investing in South Africa.

We need to rid our State Owned Enterprises of corruption because the money being siphoned out should be funding them.

Some say the Constitution has robbed us of a proper land redistribution process. Others would want to look at other clauses. Well, it's South Africa. Everything is transparent and open for debate.

The ANC will never die; it will live.

We must be able to identify those who want divide our movement, and say, 'Not in our name.' We need to choose leaders that will not divide the ANC.

We are going to seek to improve the lives of our people on an ongoing basis, and since 1994, we have done precisely that.

South Africa must come first in everything we do.

People must respect our movement.

Issues to do with corruption, issues of how we can straighten out our state-owned enterprises, and how we deal with 'state capture' are issues that are on our radar screen.

It is important that South Africans of all political persuasions be represented in Parliament.

We have brave hearts and won't retreat. We are not going back; we are going forward.

Corruption in state-owned enterprises and other public institutions has undermined our government's programs to address poverty and unemployment.

In defence of Madiba's legacy, we will continue to wage a relentless war on corruption and mismanagement of the resources of our country.

We want young people to come forward with bright ideas; we want the women and men in our country to have jobs.

We want to open spaces for young people to thrive in this economy, and that is why we said... when government buys commodities and services, we must have some set aside for young people.

We now know, without any shred of uncertainty, that billions of rands of public resources have been diverted into the pockets of a few.