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

Rwanda has its own problems and never sought to blame others or cause others trouble. I advise Burundi to do the same.

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 do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.

Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy.

Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.

I often wonder why the West is much more interested in aid deliveries than in fair trade, for example. The fair exchange of goods would place far more money into the hands of the affected people than relief operations.