“Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.”

“Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.”

As an independent Muslim country, we will not be tied to any bloc that promotes decadence and ungodly behavior, we are no longer going to entertain any dialogue with the European Union, either directly or through the sub-regional, regional and international blocs of which we are members.

We will get to the bottom of this and we will not spare anybody.

Nobody can also destabilize this country. So anybody who comes to attack this country; be ready because you are going to die no matter who you are and who backed you, we will get to the bottom of this and we will not spare anybody.

I am going to get rid of these elements one by one until the last person, apart from the decision from the Almighty Allah, no human soul, animal, fish or insect, black or white, can remove me from power.

So far there is not a single Gambian or dissidents from Britain who came to join to them (the coup plotters); so I am very sorry.

“Instead of either/or, I discovered a whole world of and.” 

“Anybody who is experiencing something is more expert in it than the experts.” 

“We'll never solve the feminization of power until we solve the masculinity of wealth.” 

“When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on.” 

“It’s said that the biggest determinant of our lives is whether we see the world as welcoming or hostile. Each becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.”

“No wonder studies show that women's intellectual self-esteem tends to go down as years of education go up. We have been studying our own absence.” 

“no one ever got radicalized by being grateful” 

“Always ask the turtle.” 

“Altogether, if I'd been looking at nothing but the media all these years, I would be a much more discouraged person-especially given the notion that only conflict is news, and that objectivity means being evenhandedly negative.” 

“Happy or Unhappy, families are all mysterious. ” 

“A lot of my generation are living out the un-lived lives of our mothers.”

“Self-esteem isn't everything; it's just that there's nothing without it.” 

“Having someone who looks like us but thinks like them is worse than having no one at all.” 

“Dying seems less sad than having lived too little.” 

“We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach. ” 

“Also, one of the simplest paths to deep change is for the less powerful to speak as much as they listen, and for the more powerful to listen as much as they speak.” 

“Decisions are best made by the people affected by them.”