People should not judge me on what they hear. Let them wait and see me in action. Then they will see how I serve my people.

It is neither my intention to depart from the route of John Garang nor to change the Comprehensive Peace Agreement.

Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan.

The duty of the media is to observe truth and social responsibility.

I attended the bedside of a friend who was dying in a Dublin hospital. She lived her last hours in a public ward with a television blaring out a football match, all but drowning our final conversation.

I love Jesus Christ. I am a Christian... I cry when I see injustice, children dying of hunger.

I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire.

If we can understand that death is not the end but is really a transition into the next life, the great part of life, that frees us up into receiving God's courage and his help.