When Uganda got debt relief in 1999, the first item President Museveni bought was a presidential jacket for himself.


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You know, legends are people like Haggard and Jones and Wills and Sinatra. Those people are legends....
GEORGE STRAIT
Stock market bubbles don't grow out of thin air. They have a solid basis in reality, but reality...
GEORGE SOROS
They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; bu...
GEORGE COMBE
No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible
GEORGE BURNS
I know every book of mine by its smell, and I have but to put my nose between the pages to be remind...
GEORGE GISSING
It has long been a dream of mine that this important story one day would be told on the great Americ...
GEORGE TAKEI
We all think we've got one more boxing match in us, and that, probably, will be the downfall of ...
GEORGE FOREMAN
People are hurt in love affairs and never recover, more than a boxing match.
GEORGE FOREMAN
I hope to have one more boxing match at the age of 55. Given that demographic at the age of 55 to 65...
GEORGE FOREMAN
Oh, there's nothing more dangerous in life at getting hurt at than love itself. People are hurt ...
GEORGE FOREMAN
We'd always said boxers shouldn't lift weights. Now I realize some champion boxer started th...
GEORGE FOREMAN
It's an old ploy of the bourgeoisie. They keep a standing 'art' to defend their collapsi...
GEORGE GROSZ
The bourgeoisie and the petty bourgeoisie have armed themselves against the rising proletariat with,...
GEORGE GROSZ
I have, for many years past, contemplated the noble races of red men who are now spread over these t...
GEORGE CATLIN
The Word

Wonder or dream from distant land
I carried to my country's strand
STEFAN GEORGE
The secret is not to give up hope. It's very hard not to because if you're really doing some...
GEORGE LUCAS
I remarked constantly, just at sunset, in these latitudes, that the eastern horizon was brilliantly ...
GEORGE GREY
Well, again working strictly to the film, where you had this lovely, lovely land of brightness and c...
GEORGE MARTIN
I just found out about 10 days ago that I must live 300 or 400 yards from Britney Spears... so now I...
GEORGE CLOONEY
I think the British people have a strong sense of what is fair.
GEORGE OSBORNE
Well British pension funds have not been investing the savings of British people in British infrastr...
GEORGE OSBORNE
It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
You will therefore send me none but Natives, and Men of some property, if you have them.
GEORGE WASHINGTON
To morrow being the day set apart by the Honorable Congress for public Thanksgiving and Praise; and ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
The time is now near at hand which must probably determine, whether Americans are to be, Freemen, or...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in h...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, s...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of me...
GEORGE WASHINGTON
It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoy...
GEORGE WASHINGTON