Bensouda Fatou Quotes

#1. We say that the ICC is targeting Africans, but all of the victims in our cases in Africa are African victims.

Fatou Bensouda

#2. The thought of playing a New York detective scared the hell out of me. I didn't know if people would believe me in the role just because of my physicality, which made me want to do it even more.

Charlotte Ross

#3. I think my track record speaks for myself ... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.

Fatou Bensouda

#4. Usually people have gone through years of in vitro, just trying. The dilemma that faces infertile couples right now in America, there's so many of them. That's why - you know that's why I started talking about it, so that they didn't hear just the terrible stories.

Joan Lunden

#5. But to lose my idealism, to quit believing in the ability of human beings to rise above their baser instincts, was to become old and bitter and of no service to anyone, not even myself.

Joe R. Lansdale

#6. Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream.

Iris Murdoch

#7. I am an African and I am very proud of that.

Fatou Bensouda

#8. Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble. George promised to be good. But it is easy for little monkeys to forget.

H. A. Rey

#9. During war, the laws are silent.

Quintus Tullius Cicero

#10. I was a blacksmith's boy but yesterday; I am - what shall I say I am today?

Charles Dickens

#11. Has the international criminal court avoided opening an investigation into alleged war crimes in Gaza due to political pressure. The answer is an unequivocal "no". As prosecutor of the ICC, I reject any suggestion of this in the strongest terms.

Fatou Bensouda

#12. Vision sometimes comes in a memory.

Marilynne Robinson

#13. I am working for the victims of Africa, they are African like me. That's where I get my inspiration and my pride,

Fatou Bensouda

#14. I like the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas more than the actual one.

David LaChapelle

#15. I do not think that it is right for me to start giving opinions about the human rights situation of any country, including Gambia, except when those crimes translate into the crimes that I have to investigate.

Fatou Bensouda

#16. I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

Fatou Bensouda

#17. What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.

Fatou Bensouda