We did not even know his name. - Mengistu Haile Mariam

We thought that the proletariat would eventually run the world. But it is the Americans who have assumed that position... The American people have changed.

If I had resigned on my own accord, to whom would I have transferred the reigns of power?

When we planned our country's economic development, we had the strategic objective of our Revolution in mind. It was not planned for economic development [to be] solely an end in itself. There are some who have forgotten that the sole basis of our revolutionary struggle was the ideology and politics which we follow...