To govern is always to choose among disadvantages.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?

Always choose the hardest way, on it you will not find opponents

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Silence is the ultimate weapon of power.

In politics it is necessary either to betray one's country or the electorate. I prefer to betray the electorate.

The graveyards are full of indispensable men.

Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.

You have to be fast on your feet and adaptive or else a strategy is useless.

He who laughs last didn't get the joke.

Let me make a solemn pledge before all of you, before the whole world and before God, that I will devote all my energy and all I possess in my power to serve the people of Nigeria and humanity.

My idols are Richard Dreyfuss, Michael Keaton, John Goodman. Maybe that's what I want for me.

Only we, the public, can force our representatives to reverse their abdication of the war powers that the Constitution gives exclusively to the Congress.

The only thing I fear is the harmful effects on my family, who I won't be able to help any more. That's what keeps me up at night.

People should go where they are not supposed to go, say what they are not supposed to say, and stay when they are told to leave.

One should never permit a disorder to persist in order to avoid a war, for wars cannot be avoided and can only be deferred to the advantage of others.

It is not good news, but we have to face reality.

Far off, men swell, bully, and threaten; bring them hand to hand, and they are feeble folk.

If you want my body and you think I'm sexy come on sugar let me know.

The sincerity of feeling that is possible between a writer and a reader is one of the finest things I know.