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"I have been free for more than a month. Some people may think that that is long enough. Others may think that that is not quite long enough."
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"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."
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"Once serious political dialogue has begun, the international community can assume that we have achieved genuine progress along the road to real democratisation."

"We want to empower our people; we want to strengthen them; we want to provide them with the kind of qualifications that will enable them to build up their own country themselves."

"Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves."

"I was surprised by the response of young people because there is a perception that those younger than the 1988 generation are not interested in politics."

"I saw many aspects of the country which I needed to see in order that I might know what we need to do."

"There is so much that we need to do for our country. I don't think that we can afford to wait."

"Confidence-building is not something that can go on forever. If it goes on forever then it becomes counterproductive."

"When we think of the state of the economy, we are not thinking in terms of money flow. We are thinking in terms of the effect on everyday lives of people."
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