“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.”

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.

Actions must have consequences.

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.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

No oppression is so heavy or lasting as that which is inflicted by the perversion and exorbitance of legal authority.

We learned that lesson very well, especially in the eighties, that terrorists cannot be used as a political card, you cannot put it in your pocket, because it’s like a scorpion; it will bite you someday.

If I bring up political power, personal power, it sounds like they’re my terms, and they’re not.

German Marxian’s coined the dictum: If socialism is against human nature, then human nature must be changed.

Political union means transferring the prerogatives of national legislatures to the European parliament, which would then decide how to structure Europe’s fiscal, banking, and monetary union.

If you are ruled by mind you are a king; if by body, a slave.

For Turkey, they think that if the Muslim Brotherhood take over the rest of the region, they will be very comfortable, they will be very happy, they will make sure that their political future is guaranteed.