Quotes by Paul Kagame

Paul Kagame

A strong leader is not necessarily a bad leader.

Leader

Strong

Strong Leaders

Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

Needs

Stories

Writing

Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.

Independence

People

Receiving

Aid makes itself superfluous if it is working well. Good aid takes care to provide functioning structures and good training that enables the recipient country to later get by without foreign aid. Otherwise, it is bad aid.

Care

Country

Training

Democracy holds little appeal for people who are struggling to survive.

Democracy

People

Struggle

Human rights are not the preserve of Western activists: The definition must extend to encompass the right to the dignified life; the right to send your kids to school, for that child to get health care, for access for greater prosperity for generations to come and to have a say in the destiny of your community and country. Under that definition, Rwanda has nothing to learn from advocacy groups who think they own the copyright on what constitutes human rights under all conditions in every corner of the world.

Children

Country

School

Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines.

Competition

Groups

Rights

I am not responsible for creating an opposition, neither am I responsible for appointing my own successor. My job is to allow for the opposition to exist within what the realms of the law. There is space in Rwanda for political parties – if fact we have about a dozen of them – as long as their objective is not to take us back twenty two years. On that point, we are and will always be very vigilant.

Jobs

Party

Years

I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.

Cynical

Poor

Want

I grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one’s character.

Character

Uganda

Years

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Criticize

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Europe

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Fighting

Great Day

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Quotes by Paul Kagame

Paul Kagame

A strong leader is not necessarily a bad leader.

Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

Aid leads to more aid and more aid and more aid and less independence of the people that are receiving aid.

Aid makes itself superfluous if it is working well. Good aid takes care to provide functioning structures and good training that enables the recipient country to later get by without foreign aid. Otherwise, it is bad aid.

Democracy holds little appeal for people who are struggling to survive.

Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines.

I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.

I grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one’s character.

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