I'll tell you, when you have wounds that are as deep as were caused by the genocide, the first thing you do is try to create some way to pull the wou….

I would like to see many times more dollars going into the education for girls. The World Bank has some wonderful statistics in terms of the importan….

Full democracy requires the full participation of women. Your voices are vital. The word 'vital' means necessary for life. A democracy, to be fully a….

If we look at governments around the world, we see that the higher the women's percentage is in parliament, the more funding there is for education a….

The United States is the lone superpower of the world. We have a stake in Rwanda's success because we have a stake in the world's stability.And we ha….

Women know what kinds of laws can really be implemented. I loved in the film where the woman was talking to the other women about what it was going t….

Women ten years ago were much more of the household property than is the case now. It's not to say that if you go backcountry you don't also find tha….

I think the women in the political positions will push very, very hard to see that there are loans and banks for women in Rwanda..

I think that women often can connect at a heart to heart level..

Women are less corruptible. There's plenty of research to show that they are less inclined to take bribes and they are more trustworthy. And so it's ….

I can quote you lots of chapters in verse from the bible that are terrible for women. But you can use the bible to either liberate or subjugate women….

Women tend to be more interested in reconciliation. A Kenyan woman leader said to me, "You know, in a war, men and women want different things. The m….

The capacity to forgive is not just about Rwandan women. It is about a willingness of women all over the world to work across conflict lines, to say,….

One of the greatest mistakes the international community can make is to say, "Well, we will get other matters figured out and stabilized, and then we….

As you're building a country, you have to be thinking about what works at the ground level. And women have their fingers on the pulse of the communit….

Rwanda is an example in terms of the transformation of the rights of women. But if you talk to almost any Africanist at the State Department or the W….