Nelson Mandela: “I want everybody to come to the table, everybody to be a part of the new South Africa, everybody to vote.”

It always seems impossible until it’s done.

He did not make any of his reforms with the intention of putting himself out of power. He made them for precisely the opposite reason: to ensure power for the Afrikaner in a new dispensation.

I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.

You can call it being political, or a moral question, but anybody who changes his principles depending on with whom he is dealing? That is not a man who can lead a nation.