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" Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time. "

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" Rwanda really did take very strong steps towards development. I mean, this place is unrecognizable. There's a very good management of economy and resources - it's a success story, and that's great. "

" It's time Africa started listening to our young people instead of always telling them what to do. "

" The U.S. has been a great friend all these years, but as soon as Africa found itself starting to move up, the U.S. is really disengaging. "

" Nobody in Africa loves to be a beggar or a recipient of aid. Everywhere I go in Africa, people say, 'When are we going to stand up on our feet?' "

" We measure everything - why not governance? "

" Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying. "

" Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populations, financial crises, widening budget deficits, faltering faith in politics and growing social demands, Africa has become the world's last 'New Frontier:' a kind of 'it-continent.' "

" Billions of dollars are thrown at African countries. "

" The Security Council represents the situation from 1945 - you had the Allies who won the war who occupied that. The defeated guys - the Germans and Japan - were out. The occupied countries had no voice. That was fine in '45, but today, Germany rules Europe, frankly. They are driving Europe but have no voice. "

" Look at the international bodies that came out of U.N. - international, publicly funded bodies that neither you or I know their names, because they are completely outdated and still publicly funded because there are no sunset clauses. "

" People never confess to failure. They should. "

" Africa's success stories are delivering the whole range of the public goods and services that citizens have a right to expect and are forging a path that we hope more will follow. "

" In the final analysis, finding a way to do clean business and not to pay bribes actually improves your bottom line. "

" Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging religions, cultures and a multitude of ethnicities, were able to construct a prosperous and peaceful state from our diverse citizenry, so too could the rest of Africa. "

" I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we're preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites. "

" Modern slavery is a hidden crime and notoriously difficult to measure. "

" I never had a doubt that I wanted to do engineering. "

" Many African people are smarter than me - kids who could have been better. I have no claim for genius. "

" I need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office. "

" For citizens to become fully engaged in holding their leadership to account, accurate information is required to see where action is needed, to measure the results of policies and programmes, to build support for courageous decisions and to consolidate political legitimacy. "

" Nobody messes with China, nobody messes with the United States, or with Europe, because these are really big entities with a lot of clout and a lot of economic power. They have a place at the table. "

" Not any amount of aid is going to move Africa forward. "

" What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to schools, and have access to medicine and hospitals. Government may not directly provide these public goods and services, but government must be accountable for whether or not they are delivered to citizens. "

" Most of the money I made has gone back to Africa or is going back to Africa. "

" All we hear about Africa in the West is Darfur, Zimbabwe, Congo, Somalia, as if that is all there is. "

" Africa was perceived - it still is to some extent - as a place which is very difficult to do business in. I don't share that view. "

" Cape Verde produces good people. "

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

" The Ibrahim Index is a tool to hold governments to account and frame the debate about how we are governed. "

" The African Development Bank is one of the most aggressive advocates of regional integration. "