“For every citizen that was robbed, I had failed.”

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.

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.

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.

Each citizen contributes to the revenues of the State a portion of his property in order that his tenure of the rest may be secure.

The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.

Let each person do his or her part. If one citizen is unwilling to participate, all of us are going to suffer. For the American idea, though it is shared by all of us, is realized in each one of us.

The alms given to a naked man in the street do not fulfil the obligations of the state, which owes to every citizen a certain subsistence, a proper nourishment, convenient clothing, and a kind of life not incompatible with health.

The state is the association of men, and not men themselves; the citizen may perish, and the man remain.

An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.

The combined efforts of millions of concerned citizens could do wonders to help the impoverished. The American people are ready for action!

Things which matter cost money, and we’ve got to spend the money if we do not want to have generations of parasites rather than generations of productive citizens.