My interest in culture generally is a comparative one, and I think that's where the word joy, I think, can be applicable. There's joy in actually seeing the relatedness, the connectedness of different cultures or recognising, for instance, your own culture in another or another culture in your own culture and feeling an air to all of them.

When I say war, I'm not talking about mental war; I'm talking about totally eliminating the obstacles to transformation of our children.

The media owes the responsibility to constantly tell the public the truth.

We live in the real world - we live within a certain history of the plague that has landed on us.

As a president, you've got to show some example. I am disturbed for instance when I read that a candidate said, 'I will not probe anybody or something like that'. You don't fight corruption by sweeping everything under the carpet, you don't. You just say, am going to allow the law take its course; I am going to empower the agencies which has been set up for such specific purpose of stemming the corrupt out flow of resources from this nation and don't even talk to me about corruption beyond saying you going to strengthen existing institutions.

Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie.

Society itself is responsible for the degradation.