The lesson I learned in Cairo still applies. The only way to deal with bureaucrats is with stealth and sudden violence.

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

Only stupid people don't change their minds.

It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.

Water will be more important than oil this century

The next war in the Middle East will be fought over water, not politics

For us, genocide was the gas chamber - what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

The failure of the United Nations - My failure is maybe, in retrospective, that I was not enough aggressive with the members of the Security Council.

I believe it will take time to find a solution to the problem. Thus we must have patience.

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

We must rid the world of the scourge of these agents of death and destruction

Briar: "So I guess I was the last to know." Rosethorn: "Of course you are. You're a man, aren't you?

You are the earth, my dear grandson, and just like it takes everything without complaining, so have you shown us today that you will take everything in kind, and there's no greater title than this.

The drink you like the best should be the drink you drink the most.

Greater love has no man than this that a man lay down his life for his friends.

Movies are too literal.

We can never tell what is in store for us.

Every girl likes feeling hot and sexy and beautiful and likes hearing it.

All of that was very closely researched. I think all we can do with drones is realize they are with us and not bury our heads in the sand about it, we should say, 'Okay, how do we regulate this?'

Cameroon is a football country - children are born playing football.

Earning money is not a sin, and the bottom line is growth.