All Quotes

"I stand by my December 2024 Parliament Statement on public finances that the state of our public finances, by any standards, is in an undesirable place"

"I highlighted the economy’s severe fiscal constraints, declining government revenues, as well as slow and jobless growth."

"We kept hope alive and hope kept us alive."

"I remember in 2017 when we experienced upheavals, when there was strife and discord. I remember that time it seemed like there was confusion and like it was all lost. The cynics, the skeptics, nonbelievers said this was not possible."

"They said the new Botswana could not be possible; they said Motswaledi’s death was the end and that the dream had ended. But we kept hope alive and hope kept us alive."

"This growth outlook is premised on recovery of the diamond industry, which is expected in the latter part of 2025, and continued positive sentiment in the non-diamond mining sectors."

"Botswana’s reliance on diamond revenues has been both a strength and a vulnerability."

"To achieve this, we will re-design our macroeconomic policy framework to safeguard the needs of future generations by ensuring that they benefit from our natural resource wealth."

"Efforts are underway to create a new fully-fledged Sovereign Wealth Fund. “This fund will invest in sustainable domestic and foreign assets across various industries, thereby transforming resource wealth into financial wealth."

"When we assumed leadership, we did so with a clear-eyed understanding of the economic challenges. With a muted diamond outlook and growing fiscal constraints, we realized we couldn’t rely on business as usual."

"In recent months, we’ve done just that, engaging with local and international investors, multilateral development institutions, and key decision makers across regional and global platforms."

"We are already seeing early signs of progress. New investments being scoped, partnerships formed, and concessional funding discussions either concluded or well underway. These gains could never be secured from behind a desk in Gaborone."

"This is why highlevel missions and face-to-face negotiations with credible investors and governments are not only justified they are essential."

"They enable us to attract the technical know-how and financing we need, while keeping Botswana’s public finances on a sustainable path."

"Every morning since I left you has been still, so radiant and fragrant and free, then turning out tasteless once I bite into the old tangerine discrepancy between frenzy and dullness. See, I’m your stupid tooth—made explicitly to break you into pieces. Now I’m unemployed, working harder than ever. Now I keep a cow tooth in my wallet, for luck, and much more of the whole skull in my subconscious, for some sense of riddleage in this cosmos, zones of mystical cartilage, I don’t know, I want to be superstitious."

"Have I been hard on you, myself, have I been hard on myself like a pestle in good hands, crushing the required pepper?"

"The size of a deterrent force must be related to the value to an enemy of the prize being protected. For example, suppose - I repeat, suppose - Russian leaders were prepared to sacrifice half their country in exchange for the removal of the USA from the competitive scene. Then, for the American deterrent to be usable, it would have to be demonstrably capable of destroying far more than half Russia in retaliation. But Russia would not be prepared to accept anything like the same damage in exchange for the removal of the United Kingdom. Therefore, a much smaller retaliatory force can give as much or greater security than the USA achieve with their vast nuclear capability."

"Sometimes nature is too natural for it's own good."

"My mom uses poison, my dad sells poison, and Wayne… Well Wayne is poison."

"Girlpants!"

"Go and get mom. I may have brain damage."

"Junk! Dirt! Rodeo Rita!"

"Our own Wayne, blowing up a whole swamp. I’m sick with joy."

"That’s nice, son."

"Okay, naked people. Party’s over, get out of my house."

"A man gets a suit, a suit gets him a job, a job makes money. So a man can have all the candy he wants."

"We could be like Bonnie and Clyde. Or Attila the Hun and… Mrs. Hun."

"Hey Wayne, how do you spell rusty?"

"I’m the living legend and I’m going on a dangerous quest after strange creatures and ferocious beasts. ~ Cougar Ron"

"Call me a bully again and I’m going to hurt you! ~ Brick Barker"

"I knew whittling would get me in trouble someday. ~ Seth Parsons"

"Ian James Corlett as Horace Cramp"

"Nicole Oliver as Dorothy Cramp"

"Terry Klassen as Tony Parsons and Seth Parsons"

"Colin Murdock as Walter Winkle and Mr. Phelps"

"Cathy Weseluck as Mrs. Winkle and Miss. Hissy"

"Jayne Patterson as Wendy Winkle"

"Lee Tockar as Dirty Joe"

"Tabitha St. Germain as Mari Phelps"

"Jay Brazeau as Mr. Pretty"

"Pauline Newstone as Lillian Parsons"

"Ellen Kennedy as Marsha"

"Iris Quinn as Tandy"

"Personally, what drives me is my learning spirit at every point of my journey."

"My ultimate heroes are my older sisters, Afia Adoma Sarpong Baafi and Akua Sarpong, who have inspired me in many ways and cheer me on"

"I want to be the best at what I do and be named in the list of top 10 presenters on the African continent"

"I don’t want to stop until I am there, I just need to put up with the grind and keep going with one show at time, one audience at a time…"

"It was tough. Coming from a healthy and fit stage of my life to experiencing a life-threatening condition. I felt it was an opportunity for me to use my influence to create awareness about the virus as at the time, there were a lot of conspiracy theories and doubt about the existence of the"

"I was shocked when I got it. I don’t have any underlying health conditions, I eat well, and I work out frequently. Catching the virus made me realise that no one was safe, anyone could catch it, I just had to speak up about"

"One thing I’ve learnt is that there is so much they don’t tell us about motherhood especially when it comes to the physical and mental health of new moms.That is why I am determined to use platforms like “When Baby Comes “ to educate new parents about postpartum depression, postpartum body image issues etc"