“Unless we change our ways and our direction, our greatness as a nation will soon be a footnote in the history books, a distant memory of an offshore island, lost in the mists of time like Camelot, remembered kindly for its noble past.†Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher.
“We were just doing our small mandate…now we are taking interest. It was a very big mistake on their side. We shall have to ask for accountability from some of these people.†President Museveni reacting to the Al-Shabaab terror attacks on July 11 in Kampala which killed 76 people and injured dozens of others.
“Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating.†Ronald Reagan, former US president.
“Everyday, 2,000 African children die from diarrhoea. These deaths are preventable by providing safe water and maintaining sanitation.†Yunia Musaazi, the East African policy advisor for Water Aid.
“Nelson Mandela has given us a wonderful opportunity and duty to do something positive and active on Mandela Day.†Jimmy Carter
“We know that there is a perception held by too many Pakistanis that America’s commitment to them begins and ends with security, but security is just one piece of this vital partnership,†US Secretary of state Hillary Clinton during a recent strategic dialogue between America and Pakistan in Islamabad.Â
“I am a man of few words. My main job is to serve the people of Ssembabule but not to shout over radio stations abusing people. As chairman of NRM I must support Kawooya because she is the one holding the party’s flag.†Foreign Affairs minister Sam Kuteesa while commenting on Joy Kabatsi statement that Kuteesa will have a hard time clearing his name over the CHOGM accusations.
“The position of the European Union is very clear: that we want the opportunity for people to be able to move around freely or to see goods, not only coming into Gaza but exports coming out of Gaza,†Baroness Ashton on her second visit to Gaza in six months.
“What counts in making a happy marriage is not so much how compatible you are, but how you deal with incompatibility.†Leo Tolstoy.
“Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.†William A Ward.
“If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man will have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.†Henry Ford.
“He that waits upon fortune is never sure of a dinner.†Benjamin Franklin.
“I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.†Theodore Roosevelt.
“The good times of today, are the sad thoughts of tomorrow.†Bob Marley.
“We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing!†George Bernard Shaw.
“The administration and its democrat allies in congress have taken a crisis and used it, rather than solving it,†Mitch McConnell the senate republican leader while addressing senate on Thursday 15th after the passing of the US financial regulation bill both in Congress and Senate.
Numbers
400, 000,000,000
United States dollars spent worldwide in the purchase of narcotics in 1998.
13, 500, 000, 000-
The estimated fortune in billions of US dollars of Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
4, 200, 000, 000
The amount of Kenya shillings in profits the Kenya Commercial Bank (KCB) has registered in the first quarter between January and June this year.
3, 000, 000, 000
The estimated number of overweight adults worldwide.
1, 000, 000, 000
The estimated number of people who could not read or write worldwide at the beginning of the 21st century.
27, 000,000
The total number of Internally Displaced People worldwide as of 2010.
214, 000, 000
The total number of international migrants worldwide by 2010 according to the International Organisation for Migrants. The number rose from 150 million in 2000.
24,000
Children who die each day due to poverty in the world according to UNICEF.
1200
Number of employees Google recruited in the past three months.Â
16
The number of hours a cat sleeps everyday.
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