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…

- Paul Kagame

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…

- Paul Kagame

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. …

- Paul Kagame

Reconciliation takes time. Sometimes many decades, as the example of Europe shows. It is hard work.

- Paul Kagame

Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region.

- Paul Kagame

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

- Paul Kagame

Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

- Paul Kagame

Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.

- Paul Kagame

Rwanda has its own problems and never sought to blame others or cause others trouble. I advise Burundi to do the same.

- Paul Kagame