In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

Israel and Rwanda both play an active part in international organizations, including the U.N., but I think it's true that our unique experiences as nations have shaped a fierce independence that we will not relinquish.

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

My purpose is to develop a country, to empower its population. It's from that same population that will emerge the man or woman who will succeed me. And they will be chosen based on the consensus that they have the capacity to lead the country.

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never happens again.

There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.

We've used aid to build capacities so we won't need aid in future.