Paul Kagame Quotes

The Situation In Congo Shows Nothing For Which You Could Hold Rwanda Responsible.

There Are African Leaders Who Have The Dangerous Habit Of Leading Their People Into An Abyss. In Rwanda We've Had Presidents Who Killed. The One Million People Who Died Here Were, To A Certain Extent, Victims Of Their Leader, President Juvénal Habyarimana, Who Died In A Plane Crash Before The Genocide Began. He Contributed To All That. The Man Who Took Over From Him Was Running Around Ordering People To Kill. If This President Came Back And Landed In My Hands, I Would Have Him Arrested And Tried. Unfortunately, He Died A Natural Death.

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.

When People Accuse Us Of Taking Coltan From Congo, I Don't Understand What They Mean. The Quality Of Our Own Coltan Here From Rwanda Is Much Better. But Still People From The Un Come Here, We Show Them Our Coltan Mines, We Show Them The Documents, Then They Go And Say: Rwanda Smuggles Coltan.

Reconciliation Takes Time. Sometimes Many Decades, As The Example Of Europe Shows. It Is Hard Work.

It Is Better For A Country To Have A Strong Leader, This Applies To The United States As Well As To Rwanda.

Moving Container From Kigali To Mombasa Used To Take 22 Days, Now It Takes 6 Days.

There Are Some Who Are Scared By Unity And By Building A Country On The Basis Of Ideas.

Rwanda Is Not Over Needing Aid, But We Can Survive With Less Aid Than Before.

Such Problems Are Not Solved In One Day But There Is A Great Step Toward Peace And Security In The Region.

Infrastructure Is Key, But Also How It's Used, And That's Political.

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, Where You Actually Belong, Then Nothing Will Change.