Rwanda Quotes

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Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

One of the difficulties about interviewing people in Rwanda is that the country is trying to get on with ordinary life and some people just don't want to get involved in this.

It is the first time in the history of Rwanda that political change in the highest leadership of the country has taken place in peace and security.

Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy.

The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.

Rwanda has its own problems and never sought to blame others or cause others trouble. I advise Burundi to do the same.

I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia, Rwanda, and Bosnia.

Strong economic growth, and especially a significant increase in private sector investment, is the only sustainable path forward for Rwanda.

Rwanda is not over needing aid, but we can survive with less aid than before.

I am still suffering from my experience in Rwanda, I never know when I'm going to drive my car off a bridge, or just decide to take my life.

I can't think of a better model for Haiti rebuilding than Rwanda.

So this is why I'm always say happy that somebody mentions Rwanda, because behind Rwanda, we have Africa.

I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.

Everywhere I go, I see young people: Confident, forward looking. I have seen them in Lagos, in Rwanda, in the suburbs of London.

In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.

Genocide, after all, is an exercise in community building.

In their greatest hour of need, the world failed the people of Rwanda.

The international community cannot stand by and watch the massacre of Libyan protesters. In Rwanda we watched. In Kosovo we acted.

These are the kind of things I always zero in. When I was in Rwanda, it was the same thing. You're always zeroing in those details. Not just always the bodies, but what makes up the human being.

I dream of a world liberated of all diseases. Ignorance also upsets me a lot. How can one calmly look at the pictures from Rwanda and not instantly want to take action and try to ease the suffering?

I think the women in the political positions will push very, very hard to see that there are loans and banks for women in Rwanda.

Paris Hilton is going on a goodwill mission to Rwanda. It’s the first time an entire Third World country will have to get immunizations for a visitor.

Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.

The number one killer of children in Rwanda is malaria. Since the United States of America stood up and working with Rwandans, we have been able to cut those deaths by two-thirds.

The story of U.S. policy during the genocide in Rwanda is not a story of willful complicity with evil. U.S. officials did not sit around and conspire to allow genocide to happen.

Without mutual tolerance emerging as the foundation, terrible situations like those of Tibet and Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Rwanda, can never be effectively improved.

The situation in Congo shows nothing for which you could hold Rwanda responsible.

It is better for a country to have a strong leader, this applies to the United States as well as to Rwanda.

Poverty is too complex to be answered with a one-size-fits-all approach, and if there is any place that illustrates that complexity, as well as a better way forward, it is Rwanda.

When a genocidal killing occurs, as happened in Rwanda, it is not just an internal domestic matter.

The civil war in Rwanda and other ethnic massacres were an integral part of US foreign policy, carefully staged in accordance with precise strategic and economic objectives.

It is the worst atrocity underway [in Rwanda]. But it's barely in the media, and people just don't know about it. And that's quite generally true.

The government of Rwanda, which is a US client, is intervening massively, and Uganda to an extent. It's almost an international war in Africa. Well, how many people know about this?

Gorilla tourism is vital to Rwanda's economy: It's the third highest source of income.

I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent

The genocide [in Rwanda] was not a spontaneous eruption of tribal hatred, it was planned by people wanting to keep power. There was a long government-led hat campaign against the Tutsis.

..each bloodletting hastens the next, and as the value of human life is degraded and violence becomes tolerated, the unimaginable becomes more conceivable.

In Rwanda, one person's God is another person's Satan-Thérèse Nyirabayovu

We are preaching hope, standing on the bones of the past.