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The reason why Botswana has done very well is because it's the only black African country which went back to its roots and built upon its own indigenous institutions.

Elected presidents are for countries.

Botswana is actually very peaceful. It's democratic. It never was in debt. They've been fortunate, they've had diamonds.

Folks, I can tell you I've known eight presidents, three of them intimately.

I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

I think people in Botswana are pleased that my books paint a positive picture of their lives and portray the country as being very special. They've made a great success of their country, and the people are fed up with the constant reporting of only the problems and poverty of the continent. They welcome something which puts the positive side.

Jimmy Carter was unquestionably the most moral president of my lifetime, but he wasn't much of a president.

Napoleon the Third was not much. He died in England, and was buried in a country church-yard much the same as Kiltartan. But Napoleon the First was a great man; it was given out of him there never would be so great a man again.

One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.

Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.