In Saturday’s National Post, Peter Goodspeed profiles Zimbabwean president Robert Mugabe, 30 years after he first took power.

Here, a look at the man who’s been called Zimbabwe’s “kleptocrat-for-life,” and Africa’s “Hitler” (by himself), in quotes.

• “I am still the Hitler of the time… This Hitler has only one objective: justice for his people, sovereignty for his people, recognition of the independence of his people and their rights over their resources… If that is Hitler, then let me be a Hitler tenfold… Ten times, that is what we stand for.”

• On homosexuality, which he’s described as “unAfrican”: “Leave whites to do that.”

• On the UK’s approach to his land reforms: “They are even using gay gangsters on us.”

• On George W Bush: “The inclusive government does not include Mr Bush and his administration. It doesn’t even know him. It has no relationship with him, so let him keep his comments, they are undesired, irrelevant, quite stupid and foolish… We realize these are the last kicks of a dying horse. We obviously are not going to pay attention.”

• “Only God, who appointed me, will remove me – not the MDC, not the British. Only God will remove me!”

• “Cricket civilizes people and creates good gentlemen. I want everyone to play cricket in Zimbabwe; I want ours to be a nation of gentlemen.”

• On why police were present in voting stations during the 2008 elections: “assist illiterate and disabled voters.”

• “It doesn’t matter what happens, Zimbabwe is my country.”

• “Who said the British and the Americans should rule over others? That’s why we say down with you. We have not invited these bloody whites. They want to poke their nose into our own affairs. Refuse that.”

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