As we respond to the assault of our enemy and defend our country, we must never break international laws. Crime can not be solved by more crime.

Of course everybodys thinking evolves over time.

Africa's downfall has always been the cult of the personality. And their names always seem to begin with M. We've had Mobutu and Mengistu and I'm not going to add Meles to the list.

Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books

It does surprise me that intelligent people in the 21st century could claim that if you respond to the terrorists with force, you spawn terrorism, but if you appease them, you somehow tame them. This argument, as I said, is very interesting, and very surprising.

The EU report speaks for itself. The statement in my view shows that the mission has turned out to be something worse than a farce, ... We shall in the coming days and weeks see what we can do to expose the pack of lies and innuendoes that characterise the garbage in this report.

I know more now than I did in the past about the process of democratization. I know more about the pitfalls.