"I have big hope for the Canadian government to help Somalia with something concrete and tangible. I haven't seen that."

"I don't recognize my people anymore. I feel Somalia is lost. There is no Somalia. It is just a name."

"At night I dream about going to where I played when I was still young."

"When I decided to become a doctor, I was very, very young, when my mother, her seventh child, became pregnant, and she was feeling terrible pain, and I could not know how to help her. And my mother died in front of my eyes, without knowing why, which diagnosis. So I decided to be a doctor."

"If this war is not fought with the greatest brutality against the bands both in the East and in the Balkans then in the foreseeable future the strength at our disposal will not be sufficient to be able to master this plague."

"President Bush in his inaugural address talked about bringing freedom to countries that don't have it. He didn't specify how."

"A visionary sees the unseen possibilities in the heart of common struggles. For where clarity resides, peace inevitably follows."

"World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into."