Reconciliation takes time. Sometimes many decades, as the example of Europe shows. It is hard work.

Rwanda is rebuilding itself once again as one nation and that is the reason why we are making progress. Now many Rwandans are making their ends meet and others are able to do better than they have before.

I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.

The new Rwanda is about building an economy that delivers prosperity and opportunity for our citizens based on a robust private sector. Foreign adventures would be costly and counterproductive distractions from these challenging objectives.

I grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one's character.

Up to a certain extent the UN soldiers are useful. But they are consuming a lot of resources in relation to the little work they are doing.

Reconciliation takes time. Sometimes many decades, as the example of Europe shows. It is hard work.