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

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

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.

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us

Today continuing poverty and distress are a deeper and more important cause of international tensions, of the conditions that can produce war, than previously.

My favorite football memory isn't beating Florida or winning the bowl game ... My favorite memories are of playing football with my brothers and my dad in the front yard when I was younger.

Whoever despises himself nonetheless respects himself as one who despises.

The collapse of the global marketplace would be a traumatic event with unimaginable consequences. Yet I find it easier to imagine than the continuation of the present regime.

The mind can weave itself warmly in the cocoon of its own thoughts, and dwell a hermit anywhere.

We can meet our destiny, and that destiny to build a land here that will be, for all mankind, a shining city on a hill.

The first great requisite is absolute sincerity. Falsehood and disguise are miseries and misery-makers.

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

I'm not like, overly anxious or nothing like that, because sometimes when you're overly anxious it kind of brings a weird energy around and I just like to just take things one day at a time.