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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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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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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If your dreams don't scare you, you aren't dreaming big enough.
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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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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 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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Women work harder. And women are more honest; they have less reasons to be corrupt.
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We've done a lot to restore Liberia's credibility, Liberia's reputation, Liberia's presence.
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I think we're ready for succession. We just must try to do it right.
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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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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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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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My mother was the strength. She was the anchor. She was a preacher and a teacher.
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Liberia just needs to go through this one political transition and it can really take off. Everything's in place now. We cannot afford to put the country in the hands of someone that lacks the experience.
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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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Future generations will judge us not by what we say, but what we do.