Even if I wanted to run for Ethiopia, I wouldn't expect the government or federation to choose me to do that.

I want to be a voice for my people and I will continue to protest.

The people of Ethiopia are saying they've had enough of the killings and are tired of being exiled, imprisoned, beaten and we are done. We have had enough. We want peace now.

What I want people to know about Ethiopia is that it is a country of nations and nationalities. Oromos are the majority. But Oromos have been so good to Ethiopia but have been marginalized for years.

In Ethiopia, the problem is that you don't know who's who. You don't know who to trust. You don't have any freedom.

I have no plans to seek asylum in the U.S. or elsewhere. I have not thought about citizenship. I love my country, the only problem I have is with the government.

People are demanding their rights and not backing down and I hope that change is on the horizon and change will come to Ethiopia soon, so I don't have even go that far to seek a U.S. citizenship.

I'm trying to be careful as much as I can eating this American food. Burgers are heavy. So, I'm trying to minimize that as much as I can.

Sports are my life. It is my life but it's also how I earn a living.

A rhythm becomes a habit when we can no longer hear the music.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.

Finding a job is hard enough, but have you ever considered the odds and the challenges of finding a good man?

I'm not concerned about the very poor. We have a safety net there. If it needs a repair, I'll fix it.

Death doesn't frighten me.

We owe to genius always the same debt, of lifting the curtain from the common, and showing us that divinities are sitting disguised in the seeming gang of gypsies and peddlars.

The meaning of an artwork is changing depending on who's looking at it - depending on what culture, depending on what time, and so forth. It's alive.

Love is the only real patriation, and without one's dear one sits in a dreary and boring exile.

...but for a soldier his duty is plain. He is to obey the orders of all those placed over him and whip the enemy wherever he meets him.