A Quote by Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

We've done a lot to restore Liberia's credibility, Liberia's reputation, Liberia's presence.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

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Credibility Done Lot Presence Reputation Restore

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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
Liberian - Statesman
Born: October 29, 1938

I was born and raised in Liberia in West Africa. My mother is Sierra Leonean, and my father's Liberian. I grew up at a time when there was a lot of civil unrest in both countries, so when something would happen in Liberia, we'd go to Sierra Leone, and when something would happen in Sierra Leone, we'd go back to Liberia. We moved to save our lives.

Richelieu Dennis

The United Nations should come in and take over Liberia, not temporarily, but for life. To make Liberians believe in democracy, to make us believe in human rights, they need to go in and just seize control of the country. That is the only way Liberia will ever become the kind of country it was supposed to be.

George Weah

What is so striking about Liberia is that in a place where there is so much to be done, I have never seen so many people with nothing to do.

Evan Davis

I ate better in Liberia than I did in Ohio.

Hailey Gates

Women are part of peace keeping troops in countries like Liberia.

Zainab Salbi

The United States particularly abandoned Liberia after the end of the Cold War.

Russell Banks

No one else will really care, but I missed the wars in Sierra Leone and Liberia. Also the war in Chechnya.

Anderson Cooper

My wife Amber and I, along with our two children, did not move to Liberia for the specific purpose of fighting Ebola.

Kent Brantly

African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.

George Ayittey

On Octover 16th, 2013, I moved to Liberia with my family to serve as a medical missionary at ELWA Hospital in the capital city of Morovia.

Kent Brantly

I was blessed to go abroad and bring Americans home from jail in Syria, and Iraq, and Cuba, and Yugoslavia, and Liberia, those are high moments of my life.

Jesse Jackson

We have to overcome the practice of male domination - even though it's changing, and changing in Liberia quite drastically.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

I am encouraged to see women are being elected in Chile, Argentina, Liberia, Ireland. More is more.

Dee Dee Myers

My father ran an insurance company, but he passed away when I was 8. My mother was an economist working for the government of Liberia. But both my grandmothers were entrepreneurs in rural West Africa.

Richelieu Dennis

In Liberia, the big challenge that remains for us is job creation. We want young people to work or go to school. That is our main preoccupation right now.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

Liberia can move on and break from the past. That is very important for us to try to achieve our development goals and reconcile our nation.

Ellen Johnson Sirleaf