The whole thing about elections in Liberia - it's not about the way you take care of people, it's not about the heart, it's about education, according to the perception of some people.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Once you take care of people, people respect you.

My fellow revolutionaries, liberation is a noble cause. We must fight to obtain it.

My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.

I will go on my knees and ask the Liberian people to participate in bringing peace and stability to our country.

I have proven to the world that I am articulate, I am very intelligent, I'm well exposed.

I will do nothing for 89 minutes, but score in the 90th.

We aren’t teaching our children to thrive. We teach them to survive. It’s not the same thing. Resilience increases thriving without taking anything away from others.

The Goddess teaches us that every ending is also a beginning. May there be rebirth from this death.

Tonight the sky was utterly black. Perhaps there was no moon tonight—a lunar eclipse, a new moon. A new moon. I shivered, though I wasn't cold.

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

And this vague little smile is my all purpose expression the meaning of which I will leave to your discretion.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it.

My father leaving the family shaped who I was and how I looked at the world. By the same token, my father telling me fairy tales that he had made up shaped me profoundly, too.

Television represents what happens to a medium when the artists have no power and the businessmen are in full, unquestioned control.

Love is no assignment for cowards.