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.

The abuse of political power is not as important as the loss of lives. Plus there is a process for curing the abuse of institutions.

People decide what you're like before they even get to know you

I don't think about being tired, I don't think about my technique. I just try to break their will.

It's starting to look like Donald Trump may be a serious presidential candidate. If you're in my line of work, Trump running for president for real is the greatest thing that has ever happened.

In the end nobody knows how it's done — how art is made. It can't be explained. Optical devices are just tools. Understanding a tool doesn't explain the magic of creation. Nothing can.

I loved every place I lived and traveled. London, Paris, Rome, Venice. I fell hard for Central America and Mexico. In each country, I had fantasies that I could live there.

The great unknown in this country is where this leaves the Republican Party after this election. Will it be the party of the Kochs or will it be the party of [Donald] Trump?

Flexibility has become a modern day value that everyone wants. But flexibility comes with a cost.

Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

When a management with reputation for brilliance gets hooked up with a business with a reputation for bad economics, it's the reputation of the business that remains intact.

Without justification salvation is not of grace, but of works.