The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water. But we also know what it means to see our children begin to smile again, with a restoration of hope and faith in the future.

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

There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference.

I've been a victor of circumstance.

Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us.

Liberia has to take primary responsibility for its own reform agenda. But our resources are limited. We have to attract the private sector to get jobs to our people that will enable us to raise the government revenue, but to do that we have to build infrastructure. It's a very complex problem of development we are facing here.

In Liberia, our salary scales are so low that our judicial system has become corrupt over the years. Now, we need to do some things ourselves.