I am someone who's been in politics for 43 years and I know what I'm doing and what I should do. Have no doubt that I know how to tell the truth and to do so elegantly.

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.

A revolution is not a bed of roses. A revolution is a struggle between the future and the past.

On birthdays I avoid taking hasty or impulsive measures.

We do not deny the possibility of peaceful [political] transition, but we are still awaiting the first case.

Men do not shape destiny. Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Sorry, I'm still a dialectical materialist.