There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas. Paul Kagame More Quotes by Paul Kagame More Quotes From Paul Kagame Rwanda is rebuilding itself once again as one nation and that is the reason why we are making progress. Now many Rwandans are making their ends meet and others are able to do better than they have before. Paul Kagame rebuildingprogressable 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. Paul Kagame cynicalpoorwant Aid makes itself superfluous if it is working well. Good aid takes care to provide functioning structures and good training that enables the recipient country to later get by without foreign aid. Otherwise, it is bad aid. Paul Kagame trainingcarecountry Reconciliation takes time. Sometimes many decades, as the example of Europe shows. It is hard work. Paul Kagame hard-workexampleeurope When people accuse us of taking coltan from Congo, I don't understand what they mean. The quality of our own coltan here from Rwanda is much better. But still people from the UN come here, we show them our coltan mines, we show them the documents, then they go and say: Rwanda smuggles coltan. Paul Kagame qualitymeanpeople Up to a certain extent the UN soldiers are useful. But they are consuming a lot of resources in relation to the little work they are doing. Paul Kagame resourcessoldierlittles 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. Paul Kagame runningmenhands The situation in Congo shows nothing for which you could hold Rwanda responsible. Paul Kagame congoresponsiblesituation It is better for a country to have a strong leader, this applies to the United States as well as to Rwanda. Paul Kagame strongleadercountry There is no way to fully comprehend the loneliness and anger of survivors and yet over and over again we have asked them to make the sacrifices necessary to give our nation new life. Emotions had to be put in a box, we are far better Rwandans than we were. But we can be even better still. We are the last people in the world who should succumb to complacency. Paul Kagame top-news What happened here will never happen again. For those (who) ... want to mess with us ... we will mess up with them big time. Paul Kagame top-news Our world faces difficult challenges, but no more so than in the past. Working together in a constructive spirit, we can assure our children the future they deserve. Paul Kagame futurechallengestogetherchildren I don't think anybody out there in the media, U.N., human rights organisations, has any moral right whatsoever to level any accusations against me or against Rwanda. Because, when it came to the problems facing Rwanda, and the Congo, they were all useless. Paul Kagame problemsthinkmemedia We cannot just be a corridor to smuggle minerals out. Paul Kagame just-becannotoutjust I'm not British. I'm not American. I'm not French. Whatever thing they practise, that is their business. I am an African. I am Rwandese. Paul Kagame americanwhateveri-ambusiness The judicial system of Rwanda is not subordinate to France or France's interests. Paul Kagame systemrwandajudicialfrance We must create economic opportunity, build a culture of entrepreneurship, get people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than putting them in a position where they sit back in their poverty and blame others for it. Paul Kagame povertyopportunityculturepeople You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet. Paul Kagame surviveyouryouquiet You can be up there, talked about, appreciated all over the world, with people singing a lot of songs about you. But if you don't measure up and you are not really connected with your people... it will explode in your face, no question about it. Paul Kagame faceyousingingpeople Africa should not just wait to be exploited or influenced. No. We should be part of the conversation. We should raise ourselves to a level where there are certain terms we dictate in the conversation because we have a lot to offer. Paul Kagame africawaitjustconversation
