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.

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.

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.

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

Just as the sea is an open and ever flowing reality, so should our oceanic identity transcend all forms of insularity, to become one that is openly searching, inventive, and welcoming.

You will say things with a merry tongue

A banker is a man who lends you an umbrella when the weather is fair and takes it away from you when it rains.

I always ask the question "Is this what I want in my life?"

To have and not to give is often worse than to steal.

The lions taught me photography. They taught me patience and the sense of beauty, a beauty that penetrates you.

A camel is a horse designed by committee.

It's our flaws who make us who we are.

Why level downward to our dullest perception always, and praise that as common sense? The commonest sense is the sense of men asleep, which they express by snoring.

I have a real eclectic taste for work, for movies, for characters and jobs.