If I didn't have the family and everything, I wouldn't be where I am.

To be knighted, that would be amazing. I remember Alex Ferguson from Man Utd got it and Steve Redgrave - to be in the same category as them is amazing.

In life, if people need help, then we should try and help them out.

I put my body through hell. I run 120 miles a week, week in, week out.

I always learn something from every race.

Whenever I race in the U.K., the crowd just makes such a massive difference, often between winning and losing.

In training camp, you know what each person is doing.

Come join us; see the reality of what I have to do to achieve what I achieve. There are no cutting corners.

It's great to be British, really. If anything happens, I'm back to my country. At least I have a country.

On the track, you know what you're capable of, but being at the birth, you have no control.

This picture has been painted of me. It's not right. I am 100% clean.

Growing up, I would never have thought that I'd be a double Olympic champion, with a lovely home and beautiful kids.

I grew up with a lot of friends who are white, black, Muslim, non-Muslim. I like people a lot.

Everybody in middle-distance running knows each other, and we all know what we are capable of.

I've got four kids, so I plan ahead. I have to book flights far in advance, look at accommodation, where it is, what you can and can't do. Same in running.

I could sit at home, watch TV, and go for the odd run. But to be the best, you have to make this sacrifice, keep going away and doing blocks of training in the mountains.

The only medication that I am on, I am on asthma, and I have had that since I was a child. That's just a normal use.

I'd promised my older daughter Rhianna I was going to get a medal for her, and in my mind I was thinking, 'I can't let her down.'

I said to myself, 'I don't want to be coming sixth or seventh, and being the best in Britain. I want to be the best in the world and race against these Kenyan guys.'

I don't know much about politics, but you have to look at it with the bigger picture and think what's best for us now, what's best for us in 10 years' time, what's best for our kids' kids' future - and I don't know.

This is where I started life. This is where I went to uni. This is where the people I know are. This is my country, and when I put on my Great Britain vest, I'm proud, very proud, that it's my country.

If I look back down the years, how I was treated as a kid, if it wasn't for the teachers at my school, then I wouldn't have achieved what I have. You have to look where you came from, and we do need to get more parents involved, more running clubs and more schools. They can make a difference.

I think the way I am, the way I'm chilled out, has a lot to do with being Muslim and having faith.

Let me do what I do best. And that's to run and represent my country and make my country proud.

I'm away about six months of the year, competing here in the U.K. or in training camps in Arizona, Ethiopia, the Pyrenees.

I try to be honest in what I do and in everything I do. I try to be honest with my family.

When I run for my country, I'm very proud to run for my country.

All that work you put in, it's so worth it to win a medal.

I am not a politician. I am not in politics. I'm just a citizen.

What is a government supposed to do for its people? To improve the standard of living, to help them get jobs, get kids to schools, and have access to medicine and hospitals. Government may not directly provide these public goods and services, but government must be accountable for whether or not they are delivered to citizens.

Rule of law is the most important element in any civil society.

If we are to build grassroots respect for the institutions and processes that constitute democracy, the state must treat its citizens as real citizens rather than as subjects.

I don't subscribe to the narrative that Africa is backward because of colonialism.

Intimidation, harassment and violence have no place in a democracy.

Sudan has been an experiment that resonated across Africa: if we, the largest country on the continent, reaching from the Sahara to the Congo, bridging religions, cultures and a multitude of ethnicities, were able to construct a prosperous and peaceful state from our diverse citizenry, so too could the rest of Africa.

The leakage of information means you're going to be able to read everybody's e-mail.

Mobile phones play a really wonderful role in enabling civil society. As well as empowering people economically and socially, they are a wonderful political tool.

Compared to developed countries, or even to some major emerging countries, burdened by aging populations, financial crises, widening budget deficits, faltering faith in politics and growing social demands, Africa has become the world's last 'New Frontier:' a kind of 'it-continent.'

Behind every corrupt politician are 10-20 corrupt businessmen.

When Captain Moussa Dadis Camara came to power, too many thought he would hold to his promise to stand down, introduce democratic elections and restore the rule of law.

Business is global. Countries need to react to that; taxes need to be paid where profit arises.

Africa has 53 countries. And you find that three or four countries in these 53 are dominating the news.

The state and its elites must be subject, in theory and in practice, to the same laws that its poorest citizens are.

What do you do if you're an executive who resigns? You declare yourself a consultant.

Literacy in Tunisia is almost 100%. It's amazing - no country in the region or even in Asia can match Tunisia in education.

Increasing extremism - across Africa and the world - must be understood in the context of the failure of our leaders properly to manage diversity within their borders.

I never had a doubt that I wanted to do engineering.

Remember, 2000 was the year of the dot-com bust. The telecom industry lost about $2 trillion in market capital at that time.

I think we need to look at ourselves first. We should practice what we're preaching. Otherwise, we are hypocrites.

I need to be free, to speak the unspeakable. You can't do that in office.