If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers.

The Liberty Bell is "a very significant symbol for the entire democratic world."

If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner.

It can be said that there are four basic and primary things that the mass of people in a society wish for: to live in a safe environment, to be able to work and provide for themselves, to have access to good public health and to have sound educational opportunities for their children.

Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another.

Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns.

My son has died of AIDS.