My father made sure I was treated equally with my brothers.

Leadership is about falling in love with the people you serve and the people falling in love with you.

It is only when a woman is economically empowered that she can negotiate at household level with her husband about the number of children that body of hers can have.

When I took over, the economy had almost collapsed. I told Malawians we needed to pass through difficult times. Two days ago I even cut my own salary by 30% to show we are making sacrifices.

My dear husband, Richard, has been the driving force behind my success and rise to whatever level I am now. My story and legacy is incomplete without his mention.

I have always said that I want Malawi to attain growth that should not just be seen in GDP, but in the growth of opportunities for all, protection for all, and equality for all.

I will forever be thankful to the Malawians and international community, and my professional army and army general, who said: 'No, we will follow the constitution.' That's why I'm here.

My mission in life is to assist women in social and political empowerment through business and education.

Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business.

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

Now is the time to Start a Normal Christian Life!

I say at our management conferences that the amount Wal-Mart grows in just one year is the equivalent of Costco's size.

In fact, the individual outlook becomes less and less valuable and more and more harmful unless it is transmitted into the corporate outlook.

Steve Nicol never gives more than 120 per cent.

My dream... was to be an eclectic knowledge-gathering person.

Sanitation issues in the developing world affect women more than they affect men.

How do you like to go up in a swing, Up in the air so blue? Oh, I do think it the pleasantest thing Ever a child can do!

In America, freedom and justice have always come from the ballot box, the jury box, and when that fails, the cartridge box.