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

A strong leader is not necessarily a bad leader.

I am not responsible for creating an opposition, neither am I responsible for appointing my own successor. My job is to allow for the opposition to exist within what the realms of the law. There is space in Rwanda for political parties - if fact we have about a dozen of them - as long as their objective is not to take us back twenty two years. On that point, we are and will always be very vigilant.

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.

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

It is the population which decides when it's time for a leader to leave, not foreign powers.

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