“It has long been recognized that an essential element in protecting human rights was a widespread knowledge among the population of what their rights are and how they can be defended.”

I used to say I never talk about my successor, neither about my predecessor.

We were not realizing that, with just a machete, you can do a genocide.

Rwanda was considered a second-class operation because it was a small country, we had been able to maintain a kind of status quo. They were negotiating, they’d accepted the new peace project, so we were under the impression that everything would be solved easily.

For us, genocide was the gas chamber – what happened in Germany. We were not able to realize that with the machete you can create a genocide.

There is a greater fatigue concerning the African problem today than five or 10 years ago. The situation now in Africa is worse today than it was 10 years ago.

During the first day, curious at having outsiders among them, a long stream of inmates came over and talked with me.

I have long argued that paying down the national debt is beneficial for the economy.

You need a long hard day’s work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.

Polly: Education with socialists, it’s like sex, all right as long as you don’t have to pay for it.

Oral traditions going back a long, long time, which I inherited by osmosis.

What is a husband? He is the one who, with a touch, can bring back the starlight and glow of years long ago. At least he hopes he can – don’t disappoint him.

During a long career in TV broadcasting, I spent a lot of time contributing to other people’s creations.

There will always be nations. The United States will last a long, long time.