Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Quotes
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Ebola is not just a health crisis. Across West Africa, a generation of young people risks being lost to an economic catastrophe.
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I work hard, I work late, I have nothing on my conscience. When I go to bed, I sleep.
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I beg you I no magician. I can't just wave a magic wand.
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There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference.
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Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.
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I would like to make sure, first of all, that our women in the informal sector - I mean, these are the farmers and the traders; many of them are not educated, many of them lacking literacy - be able to give them better working conditions. And we've done a lot to be able to achieve that.
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The size of your dreams must always exceed your current capacity to achieve them. If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
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In terms of being able to renew my nation, to be able to be able to bring back a devastated country, to restore hope to our people, to lift women and to give them a new horizon, a new ambition and new dreams, in respect of all of that, I think we've accomplished it, and I feel very good about that.
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I'm not talking about what you hear from 5 per cent of the population on the radio, in the papers. I don't pay attention to it. I travel around the country. I'm happy I have a good relationship with the people.
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If your dreams don't scare you, you aren't dreaming big enough.
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I don't think people understand the awesomeness of the destruction of this country - its institutions, its infrastructure, its law, its morals.
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I just think that unless you have that cohesiveness in the family unit, the male character tends to become very dominant, repressive and insensitive. So much of this comes also from a lack of education.
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I think we're ready for succession. We just must try to do it right.
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We've done a lot to restore Liberia's credibility, Liberia's reputation, Liberia's presence.
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Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.
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If your dreams do not scare you, they are not big enough.
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I don't run a woman government. I run a government of people.
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When I took office, Liberia began to recover from years of neglect. Our people have brought clean water into the heart of Monrovia to children who have never known water from a tap. Efforts are underway to expand water projects as much as possible throughout the country.
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All girls know that they can be anything now. That transformation is to me one of the most satisfying things.
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One has to look at my life story to see what I've done. I've paid a heavy price that many people don't realize.
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My mother was the strength. She was the anchor. She was a preacher and a teacher.
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We have to overcome the practice of male domination - even though it's changing, and changing in Liberia quite drastically.
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We are here because we share a fundamental belief: that poverty, illiteracy, disease and inequality do not belong in the twenty-first century. We share a common purpose: to eradicate these ills for the benefit of all. And we share a common tool to achieve this: the Millennium Development Goals.
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Of course, I am the first democratically elected woman president in Africa, and that raises a lot of expectations. Because I represent the aspirations of women all over Africa, I must succeed for them. I must keep the door open for women's participation in politics at the highest level. That is both humbling and exciting.