For every citizen that was robbed, I had failed.

My recommendation is a compelling urgency for decentralisation. There is a necessity to decentralise the Police. We are under policed.

The concept of loyalty is a very strange concept. When loyalty is to be tested, the real answer is that may it never be.

who want to benefit from the commonwealth must contribute to the common purse.

There are times we spent money when we shouldn't, the choices we make define the results we get

The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.

The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed.

As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.

We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.

My knowledge of Abuja is not as deep as my knowledge of Lagos.

Actions must have consequences.

There are days when I want to dip my soul in memories and just soak. Then there are others where I'm praying they'll be washed away.

It was a different life out here, but make no mistake: Lazlo was every bit the dreamer he had always been, if not more. He might have left his books, but he carried all his stories with him.

You came to me to learn the Pleasure of Life and the Pleasure of Art. Perhaps I am chosen to teach you something much more wonderful, the meaning of Sorrow and its beauty.

There is no politically neutral fence available for us to sit on, and our attempts to do so have the consequence (intended or not) of supporting the existing political system.

This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.

Unlike cats dogs never scratch you when you wash them. They just become very sad and try to figure out what they did wrong.

Badminton is not popular in the U.S. because I think the mentality of badminton has to change.

The physical was never the best part of the body.

Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present.

Marc Bolan had inspired so many people to pick up a guitar and join a band.