Ellen Johnson Quotations

We're going to send information about the Island only being a tank away when people request vacation information. We're looking forward to having a great summer this year.

We're getting reports of how some religion-based 'aid' groups are trying to fly evangelists into the stricken areas and how U.S. Army chaplains are carrying bibles -- not food or water -- to 'comfort' people,

We know expectations are going to be high. The Liberian people have voted for their confidence in my ability to deliver ... very quickly,

We have to first secure the peace, we have to make our nation secure, people must feel safe and confident, ... That means we have to address the issue of young people particularly, the war-affected youths ? both ex-combatants as well as the victims.

We want the best type of informational brochure we can do. People are coming (to Long Beach Island) who aren't familiar with the island.

We need competent, transparent leadership, ... I see myself as a Mandela figure. Six years to get it done, then turn it over to the younger generation.

I am going to be a leader and a president who happens to be a woman. But I am glad to be a woman because I think I will bring an extra dimension to the task.

We are going to reach out to them and assure them the country is also theirs,

I will appeal to him and invite him to come and work with us so that we can all work in the interests of the country, ... We're going to have a government of inclusion.

People need material aid, medical care and economic support -- not prayers and preaching.

Some of the other candidates (have) foreign experience, (but) may lack the ability to be a healer,

I will work with the United States and the UN to restore security and address the needs of the country,

We're always concerned. The Island is a tank of gas away and that is one of the things that we sell.

We are looking at a second round. Every indication is that it is inevitable,

Thomas Smith Woewiyu and his boss, Charles Taylor, are very busy trying to get somebody elected who will then welcome them into Government to complete their looting agenda.

We have shattered the glass ceiling theory, and I hope women will seize the moment to become active in civil and political affairs,

Women, don't sit there! Do something positive together with men!

Women can be as strong as men and we've got good examples throughout this world of strong women who have brought equal competence, strength and courage to everything that they do, in the UK, Pakistan, India, ... Iron Lady.

We just make sure it's fun more than anything.

Thanks for your support and go out on Tuesday and vote for the interest of Liberia. Vote for the future of Liberia. Vote in the interest of education, ... We have a commitment to improve the quality of living of all Liberians.

This endorsement and expressions of support points to what we have been saying since the beginning of the campaign and that is:

The young people have a right to express themselves. They're doing so peacefully, ... start the process of renewal and rebuilding.

It's a big task. I'm aware of the enormity of this, ... But I also think that I'm up to the task.

It's like the state slogan says. Come see for yourself.

It's clear that the Liberian people have expressed confidence in me, ... They have elected me to lead the team that will bring reform to the country and that will deliver development.

This is a very important day in my life. I want to make history. Even if it means I will walk for 10 hours, I will do so,

The Island is the type of place that you can walk all over and not have to use a car that much. Most of the people who come down rent a home for a week. Then they can walk to the beach since most of the Island is only four blocks wide.

I hope young girls will now see me as a role model that will inspire them, ... I certainly hope more and more of them will be better off, women in Liberia, women in Africa, I hope even women in the world.

I have operated, succeeded and excelled in a man's world -- in every area or profession that I have been in,

I'm at least glad to hear they're continuing it.

If you're competing with men as a professional, you have to be better than they are ... and make sure you get their respect as an equal, ... It's been hard. Even when you gain their acceptance, it's in a male-dominated way. They say, 'Oh, now she's one of the boys.

The election of Africa's first democratically elected female president is historic... I promise that I will conduct myself and the affairs of the country in a manner that brings pride to the women of Liberia, Africa and even the world,