You have to separate the humanitarian impulse from the record of aid itself. We all want to help. Many people would say that it's the moral impulse of the rich to help the poor, but the record of aid has been terrible.

What Africa needs to do is to grow, to grow out of debt.

Look at the history of peace accords in Africa. They have a terrible record. They are shredded even before the ink on them is dry.

There was free trade in Africa. There was free enterprise in Africa before the colonialists came.

The only good dictator is a dead one.

Dictators cause the world’s worst problems: all the collapsed states, and all the devastated economies. All the vapid cases of corruption, grand theft, and naked plunder of the treasury are caused by dictators, leaving in their wake trails of wanton destruction, horrendous carnage and human debris.

Hippos kill more people in Africa annually than any other wild animal.