Abdoulaye Wade
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"Abdoulaye Wade" is a Senegalese politician who was List of Presidents of Senegal/President of Senegal from 2000 to 2012. He is also the Secretary-General of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) and has led the party since it was founded in 1974. A long-time opposition leader, he ran for President four times, beginning in 1978, before he was elected in 2000. He won re-election in 2007 with a majority in the first round, but in 2012 he was defeated in a controversial bid for a third term.

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Some people are living right in water, others are camping outside. Tackling that is more important than elections.

States have no friends, they only have interests.

We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.

As a disciplined African head of state, I will follow the decisions of the Economic Community of West African States and the African Union on how to resolve the Ivorian conflict.

Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.

I have decided to suspend this procedure to continue the dialogue with the opposition. That doesn't mean I have abandoned combining the elections.

If we are utopists, leave us with our utopias so long as they induce action, so long as they are motivating.

A small child from a developing country has the advantage, from a very early age, of having access to toys which structure his mind, which constitute a sure advantage over the little African child who has never even held a modern toy.

People of today should not forget those Africans who made a major contribution to world peace.