What we (U.S.) have done, is undertaken diplomacy through public assertions that tend to alienate everyone.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

Africa is going through its own historical process of state formation just as Europe and America did. It is just happening much later than other continents because of the interruption of Africa's own historical development by the colonization of Africa by Europe.

Slavery, racism, sexism, and other forms of bigotry, subordination, and human rights abuse transform and adapt with the times.

Americans' perceptions of Africa remain rooted in troubling stereotypes of helplessness and perpetual crisis.

The Janjaweed are like a grotesque mixture of the mafia and the Ku Klux Klan, ... These guys have a racist ideology that sees the Arab population as the supreme population that would like to see the subjugation of non-Arab peoples. They’re criminal racketeers that have been supported very directly by the government to wage the war against the people of Darfur.