Idi Amin: "Did you think it was all a game? I will go to Africa, and I will play the white man with the natives. We are not a game. We are real. This room here, it is real. I think your death will be the first real thing that has happened to you."
And yet, the bolded part is an accurate description of what happened. "He who strives on and lives to strive / Can earn redemption still." A good illustration of a certain type of expat behaviour.
Amin was erratic, unpredictable, prone to use way too much violence, megalomaniacal, and paranoid. He was also smart, charismatic, and deeply insightful. As here, there was a "grain of truth" in much of what he said.
The first example I remember of his extreme insightfulness into other peoples' motives was when on that first day Dr. Garrigan initially refused his invitation to be Amin's personal physician. Almost immediately Amin divined Dr. Garrigan's wanting to return to the mission was because of the "the woman". (Amin immediately completely dropped the subject on hearing she was married - a clue to his later behavior.)
If there were any clues as to Dr. Garrigan's thinking, I missed them. Nothing seemed to suggest even a glimmer of that motivation. In fact, I suspected not even Dr. Garrigan himself was fully aware of his own motivations. Yet Amin quickly figured it out.