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" Tony Blair is paid $500,000 for one speech, and no one asks how he is going to spend it. "

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" Sudan cannot afford to be on the wrong side of history. The north and south will have to work together, but will they? "

" Young people are better educated. They grew up in a society which is well connected, well informed. They are able to communicate to one another, to know what is happening. "

" I never set out really to build a financial empire or to be a wealthy man. "

" Educational opportunities have supported the rise of the African middle class, the professional cadre of young people who are now willing and able to contribute to Africa's future prosperity. "

" The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail. "

" If you are African, the more educated you are, the less chances you have of getting a job. "

" 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. "

" The issue with international institutions is that there is a crisis of legitimacy. Trust in these institutions is a serious problem. "

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

" The mobile industry changed Africa. "

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

" Multinationals don't pay taxes in Africa - we all know that. "

" Corruption exists everywhere. "

" I really don't have heroes in business; I never looked up at business people. "

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

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

" People never confess to failure. They should. "

" Transfer pricing is causing huge problems in Africa. "

" Now is the time for Afro-realism: for sound policies based on honest data, aimed at delivering results. "

" Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one. "

" Far from being hopeless, Africa is full of hope and potential, maybe more so than any other continent. The challenge is to ensure that its potential is utilised. "

" Young people, all too often, find their interests overlooked and their voices ignored. "

" If we cannot accurately measure poverty, we surely cannot accurately measure our efforts to tackle it. "

" Mexico established a unique three-part governing system shared by the government, the information commission and civil society organisations. "

" You fly for hours and hours and hours over Africa to go from one place to another. "

" When you ask people what they think of Africa, they think of AIDS, genocide, disasters, famine. "

" After the sale of Celtel, I really wanted to give the money back, and I had a number of choices - to go and buy masses of blankets and baby milk or to go into Darfur or Congo. That would have been very nice actually, but it's just like an aspirin: it doesn't deal with the problem. "

" If economic progress is not translated into better quality of life and respect for citizens' rights, we will witness more Tahrir Squares in Africa. "