Mengistu is a barbaric and cruel creature who becomes happy with the death of human beings.

I am a revolutionary; my life is dedicated to freeing the people.

From now on you must pray for your people and yourself three times a day.

Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.

We thought that the proletariat would eventually run the world. But it is the Americans who have assumed that position... The American people have changed.

Ethiopia did not have the same problem [of corruption]. African leaders looked at us with envy.

A mother’s love is more beautiful than any fresh flower.

I know, at the time it was an imperfect solution in an imperfect world.

I don't understand German myself. I learned it at school, but forgot every word of it two years after I had left, and have felt much better ever since.

When you perform with a live audience, the audience comes back to you, so that you and the audience are giving to each other, in a sense. It's an extraordinary thing. It's wild turf up there.

I believe if you want to convey a complex philosophy, its advisable to keep it simple: day-to-day lingo.

We do have to be a witness to our art.

If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.

Politics need to stop treating women as a special-interest group.

Take something away, and your habits become clear.

When I became 16 I started thinking seriously about singing.