There is nothing to prevent you from pushing your propaganda, to push your programme out to the students or with the public at large…and if you can carry the ground, if you are right, you win. That’s democracy.

What is of consequence is I did my best.

The task of the leaders must be to provide or create for them a strong framework within which they can learn, work hard, be productive and be rewarded accordingly. And this is not easy to achieve.

I am not given to making sense out of life - or coming up with some grand narrative on it - other than to measure it by what you think you want to do in life. As for me, I have done what I had wanted to, to the best of my ability. I am satisfied.

I do not yet know of a man who became a leader as a result of having undergone a leadership course.

I'm not saying that everything I did was right, but everything I did was for an honourable purpose.

Without the elected president and if there is a freak result, within two or three years, the army would have to come in and stop it.