“I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would n...” — Mo Ibrahim Quote

“I left Sudan when I was 25 or 26 years old. If I had stayed, I would never have ended up being an entrepreneur. You can have the qualities, but if you don't have the environment, you just wither away. It's like a fish: take it out of water, it will not survive.”

“The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.”

“I'm uncomfortable, frankly, with the hype about Africa. We went from one extreme... to, like, Africa now is the best thing after sliced bread.”

“My first marriage ended after 24 years.”

“I was listening to the guy that represented me in the state Senate, and I just got really frustrated. I called my wife and said, 'I've always wanted to do something that makes a difference.' So I ended up running and won.”

“I wrote my epitaph: He started out a particle and ended up a wave.”