"Everything around here is financed by the French government. We ask the French for money, we get it and waste it."
Jean-Bédel Bokassa, second president of the Central African Republic (later Emperor), as quoted in David Lamb's The Africans, New York, 1985.
"One cannot create a great history without sacrifices, and this sacrifice is accepted by the population."
Jean-Bédel Bokassa, second president of the Central African Republic (later Emperor), as quoted in David Lamb's The Africans, New York, 1985.
