P. W. Botha Quotes

There is only one element that can break the Afrikaner … and that is the Afrikaner himself.

The Cubans are not in Africa out of love.

I never have the nagging doubt of wondering whether perhaps I am wrong.

The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.

I have been to Switzerland before but not to this <nowiki>[</nowiki>Paul Kruger's] house or to a Swiss bank.

I am not against the provision of the necessary medical assistance to Coloured and natives, because, unless they receive that medical aid, they become a source of danger to the European community.

I feel more welcome among the black communities than I do among Coloureds

With the with­drawal of Britain east of the Suez and the consequent vacuum caused in the Middle East, and the stocking of arsenals in some African states by Russia and China, the dangers threatening South Africa today are greater than ever before.

I hate no black man. I hate no brown man. The same God that made me put them there too. My God is not only for Afrikaners.

No more mine-laying. No more murder. No more abduction of women and children. No more attacks on headmen. No more raids across the border. So long as these conditions do not exist there will be no withdrawal [from South-West Africa] of South African troops.

We do not want chaos in South Africa.

The United States needs a man at the helm who knows some psychology, who would know that you can't try to dictate to a people from abroad without stiffening their resistance.

We are a strong country in a rather sick world. … Our problems are not so much racial as radicals wish to make them.

Nelson Mandela can rot in prison until he dies or I die, whichever takes longer.

The Republic of South Africa has a new formula under the National Party's leadership: black nations can get freedom without firing shots or revolution.