There is no doubt that the United States now feels that they are the only superpower in the world and they can do what they like.

An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.

We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge.

True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past.

There is no passion to be found playing small - in settling for a life that is less than the one you are capable of living.

Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future.