Democracy was assassinated here when Patrice Lumumba was assassinated. And who brought democracy back to this country? We are the ones who did that after pushing out the dictatorship in 1997.

You can organize elections any day, even tomorrow. But what will be the result of chaotic elections? More chaos!

What is the situation today? We have a united country. We have a single currency. We have managed to stabilize the economy, despite difficulties. We could talk all day about all those achievements.

Nobody as of today can produce any oral or written statement from me talking about changing the constitution.

I believe that what's much more important is not what you say, but what you do. And I am a doer.

One of the reasons why a number of people have decided to go into the opposition were the reforms we carried out.

We are not going to finance elections when we need to fight to win back occupied territory.

The constitution is very clear as to how and when the president hands over power. He can only hand power over to an elected successor.

When Europe senses danger, it needs to do something to keep all the Africans at home where they belong.

The West exploited Africa and now it wants to save it. We have been living with this hypocrisy for too long. Africa can only be saved by Africans.

I cannot interpret the constitution. Only the constitutional courts can interpret the constitution.

It does not matter what your calling is, if you can invest all your time into it, then, greatness will become your reward.

Experience is the best teacher.

Everybody has a tragedy or two in their lives.

A man's name, title, and rank are artificial and impermanent; they do nothing to reveal what he really is, even to himself.

I mean, I’m an artist by nature, no one considers what I do and no one knows who the heck I am, but that anybody does - it is astonishing.

She's got Greta Garbo's standoff sighs, she's got Bette Davis eyes.

There definitely is that element of guys who like to party and have a good time and... putting off for as long as possible the idea that they'll actually have to settle down

The time is right for a political solution and the way is negotiations.

A big mistake in politics is to think that because an issue appears to have been settled, it doesn't exist anymore. You just sweep it under the rug and pretend it doesn't exist.

To see a man as beautiful – means to make him really beautiful. There is no cunning, no deceit; this happens every time, everyone knows that.