Occupation: President Of Liberia Birth: October 29, 1938
I don't face any particular problems as a woman president because I have been a professional for a long time. I keep telling people: I am a technocra….
I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive.….
Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt..
If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough..
The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough..
There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference..
Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe..
I believe that there are certain attributes in a woman that give her some advantages over a man. Women are usually more honest, more sensitive to iss….
If your dreams don't scare you, you aren't dreaming big enough..
I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep..
In Liberia, our main obstacle is infrastructure: the lights, the water, the roads. Companies can't operate without those things. And even though we h….
As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is….
To girls and women everywhere, I issue a simple invitation. My sisters, my daughters, my friends; find your voice.
Ethnicity should enrich us; it should make us a unique people in our diversity and not be used to divide us..
Our entire judicial system in Liberia has broken down because of the many years of lawlessness, indiscipline and warfare. We need more training to ge….
Of course, I am the first democratically elected woman president in Africa, and that raises a lot of expectations. Because I represent the aspiration….
The people of Liberia know what it means to be deprived of clean water. But we also know what it means to see our children begin to smile again, with….
I've been a victor of circumstance..
I don't run a woman government. I run a government of people..
Future generations will judge us not by what we say, but what we do..
We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We sha….