Abdoulaye Quotes

#1. Condi Rice talks tough but she cannot be tough herself.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

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

Abdoulaye Wade

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

Abdoulaye Wade

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

Abdoulaye Wade

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

Abdoulaye Wade

#6. 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.

Abdoulaye Wade

#7. 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.

Abdoulaye Wade

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

Abdoulaye Wade

#9. Critics? How do they happen? I know how it happened to me. I would send a poem or story to a magazine and they would say this doesn't suit our needs precisely but on the other hand you sound interesting. Would you be interested in doing a review?

Leslie Fiedler

#10. Hell hath no fury like a woman, or perhaps a homosexual, scorned.

Henry Chupack

#11. I spent the best years of my life atoning for something I didn't do, something my parents didn't do, something done just about before I was ever even born. I got no complaints with that, but I'm about all atoned out, and I ain't yet gotten round to atoning for the things I did do.

Shalom Auslander

#12. We therefore must keep the faith, despite the defeat of policies, because men pass with their policies whilst generations follow each other.

Abdoulaye Wade

#13. I'm sort of ... coming off a bad relationship"
"When did it end?"
"Slightly before it started.

Rainbow Rowell

#14. I support the state, but not the state-run economy. The state should intervene only to create the conditions necessary for the private sector to thrive.

Abdoulaye Wade

#15. There are very few heroines in literature who have defined their lives morally rather than romantically and likewise but a handful in film.

Molly Haskell

#16. 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.

Abdoulaye Wade

#17. She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.

Thomm Quackenbush