free, honest, open and without any violence of any kind.

If I go to Italy, I will certainly request to meet with Pope Francis, whom I admire very much.

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over.

The election process demonstrated significant advances in Ethiopia's democratization process, including most importantly the introduction of a more competitive electoral process,

People make a big fuss over you when you're President. But I'm very serious about doing everything I can to make sure that it doesn't go to my head.

I think the government ought to stay out of the religious business