Liberia can move on and break from the past. That is very important for us to try to achieve our development goals and reconcile our nation.

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

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

Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.

I've been a victor of circumstance.

We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a common purpose: to eradicate these ills for the benefit of all. And we share a common tool to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals.