“I wanted to add something else that we need to look at: there is fear, there is failure, I want to talk about fire. At what level is the fire in your belly to act upon what you must towards the results? What courage, what amount of courage do you have? Where is the courage to do the right thing? Even I said some of us are very lucky because of the way we started and maybe happily continued, this is what I called the ideology, what do you believe in? What politics do you believe in? Or principles that you can actually stand up and fight for. I am not expecting nor suggesting that everybody should be like the other or like me because I was lucky to go through that kind of history. Some of us got involved in something that is extreme, but I am not even suggesting that. I am suggesting something that is simple, that is doable, but that needs some level of courage, some level of determination. People here may have different levels of knowledge, of skills, of talent, and so on, that’s okay. I am saying this courage, even if at different levels, is available to anyone who decides to have it. Let’s try to do what we can, with all our energy, with all our attention, and deliver. And then we can put things in place to hold ourselves accountable so that we know where have we come from, where are we, where we are going, and keep reminding each other, and I think that’s the best way.” President Kagame at the closing of the Cabinet Retreat | Kigali, 20 March 2024
