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Eritrea is hellbent on destabilising Ethiopia. It does not care who it sleeps with.

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.

I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.

I was not interested in being minister of defense or minister of foreign affairs.

In the community, in the African-American community, one person ought to say something, and that is the minister. The minister is paid by the people. He doesn't work for a big company. He doesn't represent a particular special interest.

I am chairman of the Africa subcommittee in the House of Representatives.

I do commercials, but I also go to Sudan as an ambassador for UNICEF.

I'm not going to be known as the Sinn Fein Minister who did the bidding of a Tory administration which is focused on decimating the welfare state.

I'm a minister, and I serve as a minister in addition to being a university professor.

In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.