We are not going to finance elections when we need to fight to win back occupied territory.

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.

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.

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

Go on, glare your eyes at me, and cry and plead, and talk tome about money and what it can buy. But it can't buy back a child once he's dead!

We are only as strong as we are united, as weak as we are divided.

Being mean just for being mean's sake isn't funny.

Jerusalem the Golden, With milk and honey blest, eneath thy contemplation Sink heart and voice oppressed.

Artists have a right to be modest and a duty to be vain.

I got a huge knot in my stomach because if Antarctica could talk, it would be saying only one thing: you don't belong here. (277)

You get used to falling in love with people and having to let them go.

There must always be a discrepncy between concepts and reality, because the former are static and discontinuous while the latter is dynamic and flowing

Open your mind and let the pictures out