All Quotes

"I’m driven by a desire to learn from others, grow, and contribute meaningfully to my community. My approach is to take bits and pieces from various experiences and perspectives, forging my own path while staying true to my values and principles."

"I joined the party and actively participated in the primaries, competing for a chance to represent Matala No.41 constituency. After a successful nomination, I embarked on an aggressive campaign, connecting with constituents and sharing my vision for our community."

"The efforts paid off, and I was elected as the Member of Parliament for Matala, a privilege that I’m humbled to hold. As a representative, I’m committed to serving my constituents and contributing to the growth and development of our nation."

"I would describe my track record as ‘still getting there.’ As a relatively new representative, I’m continually working to improve my performance and serve my constituents better."

"To evaluate my track record, I consider factors such as attending parliamentary sessions and committee meetings regularly to stay informed and contribute to decision-making, proposing and supporting bills that benefit my community and the nation while holding the government accountable, and actively listening to constituents, addressing their concerns, providing updates on parliamentary activities, and advocating for their needs."

"As I continue in my role, I aim to improve my knowledge of parliamentary procedures and policy-making processes. I look forward to building stronger relationships with constituents, fellow parliamentarians, and government officials, and to contributing meaningfully to parliamentary debates and decisions."

"Adequate funding is crucial for the National Assembly to perform its functions, including research, oversight, and legislative work. Currently, insufficient funding limits these activities."

"The National Assembly also needs skilled personnel — researchers, advisors, and administrative staff — to support its work. There is a capacity gap. Modern infrastructure, such as IT systems and facilities, can improve efficiency."

"A well-defined institutional framework, including clear rules and procedures, ensures accountability, transparency, and effective decision-making."

"Parliament must have the authority to approve, reject, or amend budget bills. Allocating 3% of the budget could enhance oversight capacity, enabling thorough investigations and holding the executive accountable. Denying this amendment limits Parliament’s ability to scrutinise government activities, potentially leading to unchecked corruption and abuse of power."

"In a democracy, Parliament is the people’s watchdog, not the ruling party’s shield. When the government blocks investigative reports or critical motions, it kills accountability. This practice erodes checks and balances, breeds impunity, and strips citizens of faith in democratic institutions. It is not democracy at work but the death of accountability by numbers."

"Yes — politics, when practiced with integrity and vision, can indeed transform a country. Politics shapes policies, allocates resources, sets national priorities, and determines whether institutions serve the people or enslave them."

"But politics is only as good as those who practice it. Reduced to patronage, corruption, and party-line arrogance, it drags a nation down; but when elevated to service, accountability, and nation-building, it becomes the engine of progress. Politics is not the problem — bad politics is."

"I aspire to restore politics to its rightful place as a tool of nation-building, not self-enrichment. My journey as a politician is about breaking the culture of party-line arrogance and replacing it with service, accountability, and vision."

"I want to see a Lesotho where Parliament is once again the people’s House, where public debate is a national instrument, and oversight is embraced as the backbone of democracy."

"In short, my mission is to move this country from survival politics to purposeful politics — politics that delivers jobs, justice, and dignity."

"I want to thank the people of Poland and especially Bydgoszcz for cheering me up as I was racing"

"I had to fight a war to get into the Kenya team"

"The whole of the Kenyan team was training foot of mount Kenya which is as chilly as Bydgoszcz"

"I was not certain I would win because I had not raced before with the one who was following [Mehdin], but when I opened up a 10m gap, I started praying as I was racing, and I thank God that he has given me this win that I have dedicated to the Kenyans"

"[T]he desire of bearing sovereign rule and authority respecteth neither blood nor amity, nor caring for virtue, as being wholly without respect of laws, or majesty divine; for it is not possible that he which invadeth the country and taketh away the riches of another man without cause or reason should know or fear God."

"[W]here shall a man find a more wicked and bold woman than a great personage once having loosed the bands of honor and honesty? [...] But I will not stand to gaze and marvel at women, for that there are many which seek to blaze and set them forth, in which their writings they spare not to blame them all for the faults of some one or few women. But I say that either nature ought to have bereaved man of that opinion to accompany with women, or else to endow them with such spirits as that they may easily support the crosses they endure, without complaining so often and so strangely, seeing it is their own beastliness that overthrows them. For if it be so that a woman is so imperfect a creature as they make her to be, and that they know this beast to be so hard to be tamed as they affirm, why then are they so foolish to preserve them, and so dull and brutish as to trust their deceitful and wanton embracings?"

"Hamlet, in this sort counterfeiting the madman, many times did divers actions of great and deep consideration, and often made such and so fit answers that a wise man would soon have judged from what spirit so fine an invention might procced, for that standing by the fire and sharpening sticks like poniards and pricks, one in smiling manner asked him wherefore he made those little staves so sharp at the points? "I prepare," saith he, "piercing darts and sharp arrows to revenge my father's death.""

"[T]he nature of all young men, especially such as are brought up wantonly, is so transported with the desires of the flesh, and entereth so greedily into the pleasures thereof, that it is almost impossible to cover the foul affection, neither yet to dissemble or hide the same by art or industry, much less to shun it. What cunning or subtlety soever they use to cloak their pretense, seeing occasion offered, and that in secret, especially in the most enticing sin that reigneth in man, they cannot choose (being constrained by voluptuousness) but fall to natural effect and working."

"[T]he counselor entered secretly into the Queen's chamber and there hid himself behind the arras, not long before the Queen and Hamlet came thither, who, being crafty and politic, as soon as he was within the chamber, doubting some treason, and fearing if he should speak severely and wisely to his mother touching his secret practices he should be understood and by that means intercepted, used his ordinary manner of dissimulation, and began to crow like a cock, beating with his arms in such manner as cocks use to strike with their wings, upon the hangings of the chamber; whereby, feeling something stirring under them, he cried, "A rat, a rat," and presently drawing his sword thrust it into the hangings, which done, pulled the counselor half dead out by the heels, made an end of killing him, and, being slain, cut his body in pieces, which he caused to be boiled and then cast it into an open vault or privy, that so it might serve for food to the hogs."

"Is this the part of a queen and daughter to a king? To live like a brute beast and like a mare that yieldeth her body to the horse that hath beaten her companion away, to follow the pleasure of an abominable king that hath murdered a far more honester and better man than himself in massacring Horvendile, the honor and glory of the Danes, who are now esteemed of no force nor valor at all, since the shining splendor of knighthood was brought to an end by the most wickedest and cruellest villain living upon earth? [...] O Queen Geruthe, it is the part of a bitch to couple with many and desire acquaintance of divers mastiffs; it is licentiousness only that hath made you deface out of your mind the memory of the valor and virtues of the good king your husband and my father. [...] It is not the part of a woman, much less of a princess, in whom all modesty, courtesy, compassion, and love ought to abound, thus to leave her dear child to fortune in the bloody and murderous hands of a villain and traitor. Brute beasts do not so, for lions, tigers, ounces, and leopards fight for the safety and defense of their whelps; and birds that have beaks, claws, and wings resist such as would ravish them of their young ones."

"It toucheth not the matter herein to discover the parts of divination in man, and whether this Prince, by reason of his over-great melancholy, had received those impressions, divining that which never any but himself had before declared, like the philosophers who, discoursing of divers deep points of philosophy, attribute the force of those divinations to such as are Saturnists by complexion, who oftentimes speak of things which, their fury ceasing, they then already can hardly understand who are the pronouncers."

"I mean not to relate that which divers men believe, that a reasonable soul becometh the habitation of a meaner sort of devils, by whom men learn the secrets of things natural; and much less do I account of the supposed governors of the world feigned by magicians, by whose means they brag to effect marvelous things."

"As touching magical operations, I will grant them somewhat therein, finding divers histories that write thereof, and that the Bible maketh mention, and forbiddeth the use thereof: yea, the laws of the gentiles and ordinances of emperors have been made against it in such sort, that Mahomet, the great heretic and friend of the devil, by whose subtleties he abused most part of the east countries, hath ordained great punishments for such as use and practice those unlawful and damnable arts."

"My business was doing well and I was importing PPE materials from China."

"I was selling PPE materials for both Lesotho and South Africa."

"They had nothing to do because movement was restricted."

"They were starving. I met them half way with the basic needs and essentials."

"I was born in Upper Thamae and grew up there."

"I was elected MP after just two years of staying in Thuathe"

"We need a policy direction based on a thorough situational analysis that addresses the prevailing health challenges."

"One of the key challenges facing health programmes is ensuring that funding supports critical interventions. These investments are vital to ensuring essential services are adequately funded and to protect citizens during crises."

"As the Women’s Caucus we call upon the prime minister to declare violence against women and girls a state of emergency. It is time for the law to be put into effect."

"However, despite these successes, weaknesses remain in programme support mechanisms, particularly in areas like viral load testing and the availability of trained personnel."

"The government must take full responsibility by prioritising domestic funding and strategic planning to safeguard health programmes from external uncertainties."

"Strategic planning and policy formulation are crucial,” he stressed, appealing to the ministry to develop a framework that supports annual budget increases."

"Without a healthy population, the economy cannot thrive, and critical workforce segments are at risk from non-communicable diseases. Health must remain a priority across all sectors, with government leadership ensuring that budgets are protected and efficiently utilised."

"It is time for Lesotho to reduce reliance on foreign aid and focus on financing core health sector activities. By doing so, we would have safeguarded the country from potential collapse."

"Accountants, I understand you work under very difficult circumstances at times. When asked to endorse actions you know are unethical, refuse! Keep showing up and don’t give up. Condemn corruption wherever it appears—whether in government or opposition. I will continue to do the same."

"This country is destroyed more by corruption than anything else. Conflict of interest and unethical behaviour among leaders are crippling our systems. Not only is the country suffering, but political parties are also being torn apart by these unethical practices."

"When accountants are empowered to maintain high standards, we are better equipped to prevent financial misconduct before it happens."

"The oversight institution is one of the strongest pillars. Even when we, as politicians, fail, these systems ensure that the government continues with its national plans. They keep us on track, even when we are ‘drunk’ on power."

"We must fight corruption within the government’s executive branch and eliminate it among members of Parliament. Corruption must be removed from the judiciary and completely eradicated in the private sector."

"All oversight institutions must step up and recognise their strengths. Without their involvement, we cannot create the policies and laws needed to transform this country."

"We must change our approach. Collaboration with oversight institutions should include intelligence scheduling, resource sharing for investigations, and interconnected efforts to strengthen systems against corruption."