The situation in Congo shows nothing for which you could hold Rwanda responsible.

It is better for a country to have a strong leader, this applies to the United States as well as to Rwanda.

Infrastructure is key, but also how it's used, and that's political.

Rwanda is not over needing aid, but we can survive with less aid than before.

There are African leaders who have the dangerous habit of leading their people into an abyss. In Rwanda we've had presidents who killed. The one million people who died here were, to a certain extent, victims of their leader, President Juvénal Habyarimana, who died in a plane crash before the genocide began. He contributed to all that. The man who took over from him was running around ordering people to kill. If this president came back and landed in my hands, I would have him arrested and tried. Unfortunately, he died a natural death.

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

Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.