As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.

If your dreams don't scare you, you aren't dreaming big enough.

The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.

In Liberia, the big challenge that remains for us is job creation. We want young people to work or go to school. That is our main preoccupation right now.

I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education.

In Liberia, our main obstacle is infrastructure: the lights, the water, the roads. Companies can't operate without those things. And even though we have commitments from our partners, it takes time to turn commitments into cash.

I don't face any particular problems as a woman president because I have been a professional for a long time. I keep telling people: I am a technocrat who happens to be a woman.