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

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.

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.

His absence is so big it's like he's there.

Storytelling was the most honored of all talents, for it benefited everyone.

...the definition of swiftboating is: producing irrefutable evidence that a Democrat is lying.

The role seemed to demand that I keep myself worked up to fever pitch, so I took on the actual attributes of the horrible vampire, Dracula.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.

Fly without wings; Dream with open eyes; See in darkness.

I've been very lucky in the characters I've chosen. Up until last year I was a nobody. I did jobs I booked because I needed to put food in my mouth.

Abraham Lincoln suggested never presume to know what God's will is, and I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words.

Fit is everything. I don't care what your body type is like: If you're not wearing clothes that fit you, you can't have style.

Painters... are the most lively observers of what passes in the world about them, and the closest observers of what passes in their own minds.