“Politics isn’t only about government. Politics is about the people.”

As long as I’m not selling out the people that ride or die with me, I’m glad I’m not an MC. I’m a motivational speaker. I’m not that rapper dude.

I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain’t going the way they should go, they let you know… and when they happy, you gotta keep ’em happy.

I’ve pretty much done records with everybody.

Married to the game. If we’re dancing with the devil at least teach us how to dance when the son of making dollars.

There were a lot of songs that I still wanted to put on the album but it worked out. I can only fit 18 [tracks] on the album, I would put 30 if I could.

I ain’t never been the type of person out at the movies and holding hands and riding around listening to R. Kelly.

I’m a motivational speaker.

Love don’t love nobody got me feeling like, I shouldn’t love myself.

The craziest thing is that the song [“My President”] is real but you can still hear it in the club.

It definitely changed the game. I happen to be in the game around [the time] when the internet kicked in.

When money was plentiful, I was the first one who told you to stack it. Live your life with it. Now that money slowed up, I’ma be the one telling you to save it like they ain’t gon’ make it no more.

This rap game is just WWF; everybody wants points off somebody else.

I ain’t a rapper; I’m a motivational speaker. I don’t do shows; I do seminars. I really talk to people.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I’ve seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

Music is how you feel. But if I can say one word, I’ll say ‘necessary.’ I felt it was necessary.

I always try to go back and check my old stuff. It’s like watching the tapes of the game. You want to go back and go as hard as before.

A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.

See, if you look at the drug war from a purely economic point of view, the role of the government is to protect the drug cartel. That’s literally true.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

Honest and earnest criticism from those whose interests are most nearly touched,- criticism of writers by readers, of government by those governed, of leaders by those led, – this is the soul of democracy and the safeguard of modern society

Allah guards the justice loving government, even if it is the government of non-Muslims, and destroys the tyrant government, even if it is the government of Muslims.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there’d be a shortage of sand.

Afghanistan has always been sort of a fractured nation, very tribal, where the countryside and the distant provinces have been run by custom, by tribal law and by tribal leaders rather than edicts from the central government in Kabul.

Governments never learn. Only people learn.