Ethiopia Quotes

In Ethiopia during the famine, I saw stuff there that reorganized how I saw the world. I didn`t quite know what to do about it. At a certain point, I felt God is not looking for alms. God is looking for action.

I`ve been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can`t believe this is the first time since the very first Red Nose Day, that I`ve been back to Ethiopia. The last time I was here was just after the famine and it was crazy, there were people all over the place, kids without families, aid workers, camera crews.

What the guys have learned is that whether you`re preaching to one or 10,000, it really doesn`t matter. That one person you touch may change the nation - could be the Billy Graham of Ethiopia.

I had been in Ethiopia as a young man, and I ended up donating money to an organization that had done a good job of publicizing the famine, ... I found out later that 40 percent of the donations went for overhead and that angered me.

Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.

In Ethiopia, democracy is in its infancy and it must be nurtured along by its leaders.

What we want the folks in Ethiopia to know is that we are behind them in the democratic process. We know it is not perfect, as we are still working on ours; but we wish them success in this great and noble endeavor.

I used to live in Ethiopia as a child, and I lived there when Haile Selassie was the emperor.

Although native Africans domesticated some plants in the Sahel and in Ethiopia and in tropical West Africa, they acquired valuable domestic animals only later, from the north.

Along the borders to Ethiopia and Somalia, anarchy reigns, the police and military have retreated quite some distance.

I`m a bit tired of those who think that that is the only picture in Ethiopia.