On the The AIDS Epidemic: This is a war. It has killed more people than has been the case in all previous wars and in all previous natural disasters ... We must not continue to be debating, to be arguing, when people are dying.

If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward.

I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles.

We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life.

The truth is we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free.

The histories of our two peoples, Palestinian and South African, correspond in such painful and poignant ways, that I intensely feel myself being at home amongst compatriots