“Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt...” — Omar Bongo Quote

“Do not forget that the Arab countries, starting with Algeria and Egypt, are the ones that have paid the heaviest toll because of Islamic terror.”

“I'm not aiming for the Nobel Peace Prize!”

“Instead of ideological objectives of a political nature, today we are faced with ideological objectives of economic nature.”

“The liberation movement which I led in Algeria, the organization that I created to fight the French army, was at first a small movement of nothing at all. We were but some tens of people throughout Algeria, a territory that is five times the size of France.”

“Anyone who follows the Middle East and Islamic world in general can't deny it is often a very violent place, that a band of instability now stretches from Algeria to Pakistan.”

“I am the son of poor peasants who came at a very young age to live in Algeria. I only recently saw the place where they were born, near the city of Marrakech.”