“We will win the battle for Africa, which is in effect a battle for Humanity.”

While Europe has the technological innovation that Africa lacks. Together we can become a power which can count in the future.

We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other.

I support the state, but not the state-run economy. The state should intervene only to create the conditions necessary for the private sector to thrive.

Europe is not one of the major powers. And Africa even less so of course. But Africa has what Europe lacks: space, human resources, and natural resources

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

I am counting on the private sector, because it is crucial to Senegal’s future.

From a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.

Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education.

A small child from a developing country has the advantage

You can only really learn from failure … To win, you need to fail, and fail hard.

I think U.S. and China is a big opportunity, to be seen as partner or some kind of strategic partner maybe. But those kind of powers have a way of getting too big, then we’ll have competition.

Stupidity can win for a moment, but it can never really succeed because the nature of humans is to seek freedom. Rulers can delay that freedom, but they cannot stop it.

The art always wins. Anything can happen to me, but the art will stay.

The Internet is uncontrollable. And if the Internet is uncontrollable, freedom will win. It’s as simple as that.

Islam will win with or without you, but without Islam you will get lost and lose.

Many Sunnis joined Islamic State because they felt they were being treated poorly.

Winning back their trust is the primary task of the new government. That will be difficult, but it is possible.