We all make mistakes.

I often quote an African proverb that says: "The world is not ours, the earth is not ours, It's a treasure we hold in trust for future generations." And I often hope we will be worthy of that trust.

I am often asked what can people do to become a good global citizen? I reply that it begins in your own community.

I've been around enough to realise that there are two things that once people have them, they don't want to give up, and it's extremely difficult to convince them to give up: one is privileges, and the other is subsidies.

However much one tries to suppress the will of the people they eventually will have the last word.

We tend to look at countries in terms of failed states and functioning states, which is rather simplistic.

As one of my predecessors said, our objective is not to take people to heaven, but to prevent humanity from going to hell.