My father died when I was young and I was raised by my grandmother, Emma Klonjlaleh Brown. We could afford to eat chicken just once a year, on Christmas.

I have proven to the world that I am articulate, I am very intelligent, I'm well exposed.

They say I do not have the qualifications to be president, that I do not have education. Well, I would never divide the Liberian people.

The United Nations should come in and take over Liberia, not temporarily, but for life. To make Liberians believe in democracy, to make us believe in human rights, they need to go in and just seize control of the country. That is the only way Liberia will ever become the kind of country it was supposed to be.

Once you take care of people, people respect you.

I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.

Education is a continual process, it's like a bicycle... If you don't pedal you don't go forward.