If you want to bring an end to long-standing conflict, you have to be prepared to compromise.

I've always tried to explain democracy is not perfect. But it gives you a chance to shape your own destiny.

If you look at the democratic process as a game of chess, there have to be many, many moves before you get to checkmate. And simply because you do not make any checkmate in three moves does not mean it's stalemate. There's a vast difference between no checkmate and stalemate. This is what the democratic process is like.

Part of our struggle is to make the international community understand that we are a poor country not because there is an insufficiency of resources and investment, but because we are deprived of the basic institutions and practices that make for good government.

I think I should be active politically. Because I look upon myself as a politician. That's not a dirty work you know. Some people think that there are something wrong with politicians. Of course, something wrong with some politicians.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.