Today is a day of hope, a day of optimism. |
We are doing and will continue to do cordon and search operations based on intelligence tip-offs where we go and raid premises to recover any hidden caches, |
We have to give the new government, initially, the benefit of the doubt. Help them get moving quickly so people see a difference. If a few years from now they sense that nothing has changed . . . there could be trouble again. |
We haven't had the long queues we had before, but that may be in part because the procedure was simpler ... just two candidates. |
We hope that as we process the votes, you will all wait for the outcome of this election with a spirit of unity, and that we all guard the peace we have enjoyed throughout this process. |
We hope that the current calm and stability will gradually install itself throughout the country. |
When you demobilize tens of thousands of young men, if they don't have any hope then you create all the ingredients for a future explosion if you're not careful, |
while we do not know this evening which of the two candidates will be chosen as the newly elected leader of Liberia, we do know that today, Liberian voters haven taken a major step towards rebuilding their nation. |
While we do not know which candidates will be chosen as the newly elected leaders of a democratically elected government of Liberia, we do know that today Liberians voted, cast their ballots for peace and for a new Liberia, |
While we do not know which candidates will be chosen as the newly elected leaders of a democratically elected government of Liberia, we do know that today Liberians voted, cast their ballots for peace and for a new Liberia. |