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51 Rwandan Quotes

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

Africa Aid Development Investment
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Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out

Compromise Flexibility No-One Sign
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There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.

Basis Building Country Ideas
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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 happens again.

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

Day Great OneDay Peace
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There is a need to take advantage of the change that has taken place in the Congo, however tragic that has been in its coming.

Advantage Been Change Coming
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You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet.

Help Kept Quiet Survive
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You requested me to lead the country again after 2017. Given the importance and consideration you attach to this, I can only accept.

Accept After Again Attach
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I don't think that what we need is an eternal leader.

Eternal Leader Need Think
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I'm not British. I'm not American. I'm not French. Whatever thing they practise, that is their business. I am an African. I am Rwandese.

African Am American British
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Some are short, others are tall, others are thin, others are stocky. But we are all human beings. Can we not live together and happily within one border?

Beings Border Happily Human
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I would be very happy for a woman to succeed me.
Happy Me Succeed Very
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We want to develop this can-do mentality.

Develop Mentality Want
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We cannot just be a corridor to smuggle minerals out.

Cannot Corridor Just JustBe
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I've told Rwandans it's not just what you think of for yourselves, but what others think of us.

Just Others Think Us
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I said, maybe you need to take a risk with someone else. But they kept saying no, we want you to stay.

Else Kept Maybe Need
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Our world faces difficult challenges, but no more so than in the past. Working together in a constructive spirit, we can assure our children the future they deserve.

Assure Challenges Children Constructive
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To be effective at delivering a decent life for all, the U.N. must treat all the people it serves with impartiality and respect.

Decent Delivering Effective Life
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The U.N. must be a good steward of the funds entrusted to it. Abuse and waste are therefore not a mere public relations problem. Institutional reform is not a one-off event, like applying a fresh coat of paint.

Abuse Applying Coat Entrusted
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The judicial system of Rwanda is not subordinate to France or France's interests.
France Interests Judicial JudicialSystem
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Sometimes our partners from other countries ask us why we have not got further with our reconciliation, as if we possess a magic to just get rid of this tragic history of ours.

Ask Countries Further Get
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We must create economic opportunity, build a culture of entrepreneurship, get people to take responsibility for improving their lives, rather than putting them in a position where they sit back in their poverty and blame others for it.

Back Blame Build Create
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I try to look at problems very clearly and think, 'How do we get out of this? What will work? What will be the consequences for the people involved?'

Clearly Consequences ForThePeople Get
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I get newspapers from Britain and other countries twice a week and read them almost page to page. Sometimes I find I'm reading things I don't even need to read, because my mind is still hungry.

Almost Because Britain Countries
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I grew up in a refugee camp. Thirty years. This so-called human-rights world didn't ask me what was happening for me to be there 30 years.

Ask Camp Grew Happening
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Nothing would catch me off guard, because I understand the world I live in. I understand it very well. And the world I live in is not necessarily a fair or just world. I have dealt with these injustices for the bigger part of my life.

Because Bigger Catch Dealt
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The political, the economic, the social are tied together like the strands of a rope. The social and economic, if they are firm, tend to strengthen the other.

Economic Firm Like Other
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In a state of poverty, illiteracy, people just remain exposed to all kinds of manipulation. That's what we have lived. It's easier to tell a poor person, 'You know what, you are poor, you're hungry because the other one has taken away your rights.'

Away Because Easier Exposed
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I have no regrets about being who I am and being what I am in my country for my people. No regrets at all.
About Am Being Country
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You can be up there, talked about, appreciated all over the world, with people singing a lot of songs about you. But if you don't measure up and you are not really connected with your people... it will explode in your face, no question

About Appreciated Connected Explode
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Africa should not just wait to be exploited or influenced. No. We should be part of the conversation. We should raise ourselves to a level where there are certain terms we dictate in the conversation because we have a lot to offer.

Africa Because Certain Conversation
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Most of the big companies are owned by men; let’s support each other as women so that we can also achieve such business success. This will not come easily, but it’s a journey we need to embark on now.

Big companies Support Women Achieve
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The pursuit of excellence is a choice available to anyone from anywhere. No matter how bad the hand that faith has apportioned to you.

Pursuit Excellence Available No matter
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A key role for a leader is to support and mentor the next generation of leaders and create an effective team.

Key role Leader Next generation Leaders
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Credibility is earned. Result speaks loudest.

Credibility Earned Speaks loudest
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Never accept the status quo. However much the odds against you. You can always aim and achieve better.

Never accept Status quo Achieve better
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Never underestimate your potential to be among the best in the world.
Never underestimate Potential Best World
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Aim high and stay focused on your goals. We are not a wealthy country but we’ve built a national airline, a national broadband fiber optic infrastructure with 4GLTE connectivity.

Aim high Focused Goals Wealthy
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Leave no one behind. Be inclusive. Whatever you choose to do in life, always remember this: involving others in designing solutions that affect them will ensure ownership and ultimately sustainability.

Leave No one Inclusive Choose
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Stand for what is right and be willing to fight for it even if it’s not popular.

Stand Right Fight Popular
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Dignity is not granted, we have to claim it.

Dignity Granted Claim it
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These are extraordinary times. We are facing a “once in a century”global health emergency but also a potential economic meltdown.

Extraordinary times Global Health emergency Economic meltdown
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Indeed the global economy will need decisive action to prevent economic meltdown

Global economy Decisive action To prevent Economic meltdown
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I shudder to think of the implications if this virus landed in countries with weak health systems.

Shudder Think Implications This virus
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This Coronovirus;latest proof of the need for stronger global cooperation against pandemics and robust health systems.

Latest proof Need Stronger Global cooperation
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The youth must be at the center of the the fight for HIV Free Africa.Their voice is key.

The youth Center Fight Voice
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Much focus tends to be on external debt for reasons of currency mismatches,among other reasons,but this shows the importance of attention to domestic debt as well.

Much focus External debt Reasons Currency mismatches
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Africans do not have to choose sides as they did during the cold war.They can do business with anyone (West, North,East,South-South).Anyone with something to offer.
Choose sides Cold war Do business Something
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After the near death experience of 2008 global financial meltdown,there is still a challenge of how best to allign incentives to do the right thing.

Near death Experience Global financial Meltdown
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As long as countries wave cheque books over our heads, we can never be equal.

Countries Wave Cheque books Over
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