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

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.

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.

He left a bit too easily and with obvious relief. His feet were swift and sure on the muddy path.

No matter what happens, no matter who turns on me, no matter what pompous swine thinks he has power over me, I am still me. I will always be me.

Evil devastates any possibility of an intellectual response

To possess something and not know its value is torturous

The child, unhampered, does not waste time.

If I start from a place of love, more times than not I will find what is "right, " but if I start from a position of "right" I will rarely find love.

Most budget airlines anywhere in the world are going to leave you dissatisfied after using them.

Propaganda ... serves more to justify ourselves than to convince others; and the more reason we have to feel guilty, the more fervent our propaganda.

If you are resentful, you keep the thing alive. So the way to go on is to get rid of it, in order to forgive in order to forget.

'Drive,' that's the one. I love dozens of songs by R.E.M., but that's the one, even though it took me 7 or 8 years to start liking it.