There are things I admire, for example, about South Korea or Singapore. I admire their history, their development and how intensively they have invested in their people and in technology.

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

Politics is not only about personal choice. That one also needs to take into consideration what the people want because in the end, they are the ones who decide.

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

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

Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines.

Aid makes itself superfluous if it is working well. Good aid takes care to provide functioning structures and good training that enables the recipient country to later get by without foreign aid. Otherwise, it is bad aid.