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

If we are utopists, leave us with our utopias so long as they induce action, so long as they are motivating.

As a disciplined African head of state, I will follow the decisions of the Economic Community of West African States and the African Union on how to resolve the Ivorian conflict,

We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.

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

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

The teacher that I was for decades, and that I still am in a certain way, wondered what was meant by the word education. I was truly dumbfounded at the very thought of dealing with such an essential and extensive subject.

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

A small child from a developing country has the advantage, 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.

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