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

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.

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.

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.

...light overcomes darkenss. A tiny match can illuminate the darkest room. As long as there is some light somewhere in the universe, [darkness] can be defeated.

Again, keep everything.

Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life

It's always challenging to go into a role.

This is love, she thought, isn't it? When you notice someone's absence and hate that absence more than anything? More, even, than you love his presence?

A planned life is a dead life.

Directing is the last frontier for women in the movie business. We are studio heads, we are producers and we are writers, but we are not directors in any numbers.

The bar is the male kingdom. For centuries it was the bastion of male privilege, the gathering place for men away from their women, a place where men could go to freely indulge in The Bull Session.

The biggest (and hardest) lesson I've learned in life is that the external world is just a reflection of the world within.