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.

I am the elected president of Liberia, not Ellen Sirleaf. They stole my victory, and I am here to say loud and clear that I am the winner of the elections.

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

In America there is a public library in every community. How many public libraries are there in Africa? Every day there are new books coming out and new ideas being discussed. But these new books and ideas don't reach Africa and we are being left behind.

It can't be Sunday every day. There are also Mondays and Tuesdays.

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

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.