I had to fight hard for everything. I wanted to get out. I want to take my destiny into my own hands and escape the vicious cycle of retaliatory viol….

We cannot turn the clock back nor can we undo the harm caused, but we have the power to determine the future and to ensure that what happened never h….

Technology has brought many possibilities in education and health that are key to women..

The new Rwanda is about building an economy that delivers prosperity and opportunity for our citizens based on a robust private sector. Foreign adven….

My purpose is to develop a country, to empower its population. It's from that same population that will emerge the man or woman who will succeed me. ….

Rwanda is a very open and free country. Key to our recovery as a nation has a range of grassroots, citizen-centered polices we call "homegrown soluti….

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 ….

Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy..

Human rights are not the preserve of Western activists: The definition must extend to encompass the right to the dignified life; the right to send yo….

We've used aid to build capacities so we won't need aid in future..

My own experience from a decade ago taught me I cannot trust the UN. But it is a world body and we have to live with it and tolerate it. But I can't ….

I am not responsible for creating an opposition, neither am I responsible for appointing my own successor. My job is to allow for the opposition to e….

The situation in Congo shows nothing for which you could hold Rwanda responsible..

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, wh….

Aid makes itself superfluous if it is working well. Good aid takes care to provide functioning structures and good training that enables the recipien….

I know that the fact that I am candidate to my own succession in 2017 can be perceived to be a bad thing by some part of the public opinion outside R….

I often wonder why the West is much more interested in aid deliveries than in fair trade, for example. The fair exchange of goods would place far mor….

In Rwanda, we have a society that has experienced a very serious rupture and you can't expect all of a sudden that things will be perfect. Even so: Y….

Israel and Rwanda both play an active part in international organizations, including the U.N., but I think it's true that our unique experiences as n….

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..

The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation..