Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud.

The impression that you are a demigod worried me. I wanted to be like an ordinary human being with virtues and vices.

We must also know that even before liberation in 1994 there [in South Africa] were people with resources who tried to share with those who were deprived.

We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us.

The USA is a threat to world peace. Who are they to pretend that they are the policemen of the world, the ones that should decide for the people of Iraq what should be done with their government and their leadership. All that [the USA] wants is Iraqi oil. [Blair is] simply the foreign minister of the United States. He is no longer prime minister of Britain.

Good men and women can be mobilized to ensure that South Africa is united and that the spirit of reconciliation is strengthened and that progress in this country takes place as fast as it can.

These numbers are staggering, in fact incomprehensible. By all accounts, we are dealing with the greatest health crisis in human history.