My own experience from a decade ago taught me I cannot trust the UN. But it is a world body and we have to live with it and tolerate it. But I can't hide my feelings about its inefficiency and its not being productive.

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.

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 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.

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

Reconciliation has taken place here in Rwanda and was successful because Rwandans reconciled themselves internally. If the tribunal had taken place in Rwanda, it might have helped. People could have watched justice being done.

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