As you look at me and listen to me, please remember the often repeated truth that one prisoner of conscience is one too many.

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

All right, your knees may be knocking but that shouldn't prevent you from going ahead and doing what you need to do.

Even if you feel fear, you still have to go ahead and do what you believe in.

We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves.

More people, especially young people, are realising that if they want change, they've got to go about it themselves – they can't depend on a particular person, ie me, to do all the work. They are less easy to fool than they used to be, they now know what's going on all over the world.

In politics, you also have to be cautiously optimistic.