"The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world."

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I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need even more help than the people in Athens.

— Christine Lagarde