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.

A strong leader is not necessarily a bad leader.

Moving container from Kigali to Mombasa used to take 22 days, now it takes 6 days.

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

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

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.

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.