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Paul Kagame
Leader
Born:
Oct 23
,
1957
Me
People
Problems
Think
World
You
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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.
Paul Kagame
Future
Power
Back
Ensure
We Cannot
Determine
Never
Caused
Nor
Undo
Clock
Happened
Cannot
Happens
Again
Turn
Harm
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.
Paul Kagame
Blame
Culture
People
Opportunity
Responsibility
Poverty
Build
Sit
Others
Back
Must
Rather
Economic
Entrepreneurship
Take
Economic Opportunity
Putting
Than
Get
Improving
Where
Them
Create
Lives
Position
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 it.
Paul Kagame
You
People
World
Will
Face
Singing
About
No Question
Songs
Over
Talked
Question
Lot
Up
Explode
Really
Your
Measure
Connected
Appreciated
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.
Paul Kagame
Me
World
Thirty
Years
Camp
Up
Refugee
So-Called
Grew
Happening
Ask
I don't think anybody out there in the media, U.N., human rights organisations, has any moral right whatsoever to level any accusations against me or against Rwanda. Because, when it came to the problems facing Rwanda, and the Congo, they were all useless.
Paul Kagame
Me
Rights
Problems
Human Rights
Think
Out
Moral
Facing
Because
Came
Were
Accusation
Whatsoever
Any
Human
Anybody
Against
Organisations
Congo
Useless
Media
Right
Level
We cannot just be a corridor to smuggle minerals out.
Paul Kagame
Just Be
Minerals
We Cannot
Out
Corridor
Smuggle
Just
Cannot
Let no one think that flexibility and a predisposition to compromise is a sign of weakness or a sell-out.
Paul Kagame
Think
Sign
Weakness
Compromise
No-One
Flexibility
You kept quiet... When these victims wanted your help to survive, you kept quiet.
Paul Kagame
You
Survive
Quiet
Wanted
Victims
To Survive
Your
Help
Kept
There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.
Paul Kagame
Country
Building
Unity
Scared
Some
Ideas
Who
Basis
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?
Paul Kagame
Together
Live
Others
Border
Some
Tall
Within
Human
Short
Human Beings
Happily
Beings
Thin
The judicial system of Rwanda is not subordinate to France or France's interests.
Paul Kagame
France
System
Judicial
Judicial System
Subordinate
Interests
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.
Paul Kagame
Conversation
Wait
Ourselves
Part
Terms
Because
Lot
Dictate
Offer
Just
Africa
Where
Influenced
Exploited
Certain
Should
Level
Raise
We want to develop this can-do mentality.
Paul Kagame
Mentality
Develop
Can-Do
Want
Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region.
Paul Kagame
Day
Great
Peace
Problems
One Day
Security
Solved
Step
Toward
Region
I don't think that what we need is an eternal leader.
Paul Kagame
Leader
Think
Eternal
Need
To be effective at delivering a decent life for all, the U.N. must treat all the people it serves with impartiality and respect.
Paul Kagame
Life
Respect
People
Treat
Must
Impartiality
Delivering
Effective
Decent
Serve
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.
Paul Kagame
History
Sometimes
Other
Other Countries
Our
Further
Possess
Ours
Reconciliation
Magic
Countries
Partners
Got
Tragic
Get
Just
Ask
Us
Rid
Why
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?'
Paul Kagame
Work
People
Try
Problems
Will
Think
Consequences
Out
Clearly
Look
For The People
Involved
How
Very
Get
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