P. W. Botha Quotes

The security and happiness of all minority groups in South Africa depend on the Afrikaner. Whether they are English- or German- or Portuguese- or Italian-speaking, or even Jewish-speaking, makes no difference.

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

We do not know what tomorrow will bring. We are not prophets. This is a step in the dark. We can only proceed into the future with faith.

Mandela has overstepped the mark. He has broken the law. The judiciary of this country has put him where he belongs according to the rules of democracy.

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.

Accept where I am going or I will not lead you.

There is not an Indian community in the world that is better off than the Indians in South Africa. That is the type of apartheid that I stand for. That is the type of apartheid that is not dead.

It's a psychological onslaught, an economic one, a diplomatic one, a military onslaught – a total onslaught.

The fact is that the Westminster system has not worked anywhere in Africa – not even in England because the Scots and Welsh are moving away from it.

Where in the whole wide world today can you find a more just society than South Africa has?

Many refugees – White, Brown and Black – flee to South Africa. Why? Here they know they have safety.

I am one of those who believe that there is no permanent home for even a section of the Bantu in the white area of South Africa and the destiny of South Africa depends on this essential point. If the principle of permanent residence for the black man in the area of the white is accepted then it is the beginning of the end of civilisation as we know it in this country.

You could not claim for yourself that which you were not prepared to grant others.

... I am not prepared to build the type of wall you built in Berlin. In South Africa we only build walls for houses.

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