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.

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id.

I think it's obvious that democracy is something that is contagious, and it always has been.

After all, we are not French and never can be, and any attempt to be so is to deny our inheritance and to try to impose upon ourselves a character that can be nothing but a veneer upon the surface.