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

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.

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

Technology has brought many possibilities in education and health that are key to women.

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

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

There are African leaders who have the dangerous habit of leading their people into an abyss. In Rwanda we've had presidents who killed. The one million people who died here were, to a certain extent, victims of their leader, President Juvénal Habyarimana, who died in a plane crash before the genocide began. He contributed to all that. The man who took over from him was running around ordering people to kill. If this president came back and landed in my hands, I would have him arrested and tried. Unfortunately, he died a natural death.