Meles Zenawi

Our position is that we can sit down and talk to try to solve our problems through dialogue.

An oversupply of national sentiment is not the problem in Somalia. The problem is a lack of it. The problem is an oversupply of sub-sub-clannish attitude.

Democracy cannot be a plaything for the capital cities. It has to infiltrate every nook and cranny in the country, including the village.

Fame is like the dessert that comes with your achievements - it's not an achievement in itself, but sometimes it can overpower the work.

The American people need no course in philosophy or political science of church history to know that God should not be made into a celestial party chairman.

Tourism, human circulation considered as consumption is fundamentally nothing more than the leisure of going to see what has become banal.