Mo Ibrahim Quotes

There are good things about Indonesia, but there are bad things about it that I hope can be fixed.

While Haiti has recently celebrated more than 200 years of independence from French colonial rule, the citizens of the island remain vulnerable to poverty, poor health, and political chaos.

Restrictions have been placed on my authority which have hampered me in my work of promoting the country's best interests…. I have always preferred conservative to radical courses.

The declining security of African peoples as a consequence of warfare, predatory officials, and weak economies should not be eclipsed in the international community's pursuit of anti-terrorism campaigns.

The internal conditions in Iran are worsening in all aspects. Poverty and unemployment are becoming more severe, despite the fact that Iran has turned into a developed and industrialized country.

I don't have much in me left for Somalia, because the country is so broken, it's not realistic to daydream about it.

For every African state, like Ghana, where democratic institutions seem secure, there is a Mali, a Cote d'Ivoire, and a Zimbabwe, where democracy is in trouble.

Some people talk about Haiti as being the graveyard of development projects.

The essence of Africa's crisis is fundamentally its extreme poverty.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as 'failed states.'

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

I would not apply the strategy of Calderon. I would look at the causes. Violence in Mexico has its origins in the lack of development and corruption.

I'm sure corruption in Chechnya is minimal.

Too many African countries have already hit rock-bottom - ungoverned, poverty-stricken, and lagging further and further behind the rest of the world each day; there is nowhere further to go down.

It is conflict overall that mires people in poverty. That is the first law of development.

When you live in the Philippines or a country like that, you develop something of a very thick skin because you're confronted every day with all of the problems all around you.

Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

Besides being a prime cause of poor economic growth, poor governance breeds corruption, which cripples investment, wastes resources, and diminishes confidence.

There is a crisis of leadership and governance in Africa, and we must face it.

Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.

It’s difficult to find a conflict in Africa where we have a stake in who wins the conflict.

This is a third world environment.

The cry of the poor for bread has been answered by warheads!

There has been a failure of leadership all over post colonial Africa to unite the country’s people.

Strongmen? You have to have strong people to rule. South America is a rough place.