“Actions must have consequences.”

My knowledge of Abuja is not as deep as my knowledge of Lagos.

As governor of Lagos, I never signed a cheque and never fixed contract prices.

My recommendation is a compelling urgency for decentralisation. There is a necessity to decentralise the Police. We are under policed.

For every citizen that was robbed, I had failed.

We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.

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.

The unfortunate thing about money is that it always raises suspicion even amongst brothers.

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

Every state need not start with state policing if they can’t fund it.

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.

Well, by all means please let’s decentralize policing.

The economy needs a stimulus. We MUST borrow. The notion of debt as a sin or something evil should be reviewed.

All knowledge that is not the real product of observation, or of consequences deduced from observation, is entirely groundless and illusory.

There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences.

Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.

On the breast of that huge Mississippi of falsehood called History, a foam-bell more or less is no consequence.

Success is a consequence and must not be a goal.

Every fairy child may keep Two strong ponies and ten sheep; All have houses, each his own, Built of brick or granite stone; They live on cherries, they run wild I’d love to be a Fairy’s child.

Sanity — that is the great virtue of the ancient literature; the want of that is the great defect of the modern, in spite of its variety and power.

Be convinced that to be happy means to be free and that to be free means to be brave. Therefore do not take lightly the perils of war.