In order to build our nation, we must all exceed our own expectations.

A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

I cannot overemphasise the value we place on a free, independent and outspoken press

I feel like a young man of 15.

I was called a terrorist yesterday... Today I am admired by the very people who said I was one.

We succeeded to take our last steps to freedom in conditions of relative peace. We commit ourselves to the construction of a complete, just and lasting peace. We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people.

I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism.