"I beg you I no magician. I can't just wave a magic wand." — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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.

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.

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.

I've been involved in politics for quite some time. I've held positions, and my experiences are very deep, and I think I have the capacity, the courage, and the character to institute the kinds of reforms that are so desperately needed.

I stand by it. I take the criticism for it. I think it's unfair, but yes, there is a thing about nepotism, and we all try to respect it.

I think the majority of the Liberian people want peace.

As more men become more educated and women get educated, the value system has to be more enhanced and the respect for human dignity and human life is made better.

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 beg you I no magician. I can't just wave a magic wand.