Quotes by Robert Menard

“That he is invited, that is one thing, that we sell airplanes that is normal, but to spend an evening partying and dancing with him, that is intolerable.”

“Violence, arrests, pressures, tailing and threats are the daily lot of the foreign correspondent,”

“We think it is definitely the Rustavi-2 station and its political programmes which they wanted to silence by eliminating one of its best known faces.”

“President Deby promised me that on Monday the (appeal) trial will take place and whatever the outcome of the trial, the two journalists... will be freed within 72 hours.”

“It stopped the war. But then I realized it was a Frankenstein process.”

“The child is a treasure.”

“Freedom of the press also exists for viewpoints that shock the majority of the population.”

“It is modernity at stake now. We must explain the distinctions between church and state, and between the press and the state, to our colleagues in the Arab world.”

“This financing represents 2 percent of our budget _ our accounts are public _ and, aside from the fact that it comes from the U.S. Congress and not the White House, it is assigned to our activities in support of imprisoned African journalists. It has nothing to do with Western Hemisphere.”