In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

It is said that no one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones.

No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated.

I was first imprisoned in Pretoria, and then, thereafter, I was taken to Robben Island. I stayed there for a couple of weeks. I was taken back to Pretoria when I was charged in the Rivonia trial, when I was then sent to Robben Island for life.

A visit to this country by President Clinton is the high water mark.

He had the courage to admit that a terrible wrong had been done to our country and people through the imposition of the system of apartheid,