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

An organisation can only carry out its mandate if there is discipline, and where there is no discipline there can be no real progress

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

My son has died of AIDS.

Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations

I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away.

Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England, and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African.