The best way to help Africans today is to help them to stand on their own feet. And the best way to do that is by helping create jobs.

If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.

Investing in women is smart economics, and investing in girls, catching them upstream, is even smarter economics.

I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.

[Africa] is a continent of many countries, not one country. If we are down to three or four conflicts, it means that there are plenty of opportunities to invest in stable, growing, exciting economies where there's plenty of opportunity.

Africans… their tired. They’re tired of being the subject of everybody’s charity and care. We are grateful, but we know that we can take charge of our own destinies if we have the will to reform.

Im told Im like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.