Statesman Quotes

The reason is that till date, in spite of advances in information technology and strategies of information, the written word in the form of books still remains one of humanity's most enduring legacies.

Debate and divergence of views can only enrich our history and culture.

But no nation can base its survival and development on luck and prayers alone while its leadership fritters away every available opportunity for success and concrete achievement.

At the same, we need to remain sensitive to the reality that we are still an African society in which the majority of the people and communities live under severe deprivations and afflictions that are no fault of theirs.

The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.

A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught unawares in a fast changing world.

Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out.

I am the hero of Africa.

Sometimes people mistake the way I talk for what I am thinking.

You cannot run faster than a bullet.

In any country there must be people who have to die. They are the sacrifices any nation has to make to achieve law and order.

If we knew the meaning to everything that is happening to us, then there would be no meaning.

The known propensity of a democracy is to licentiousness which the ambitious call, and the ignorant believe to be liberty.

The gentleman puts me in mind of an old hen which persists in setting after her eggs are taken away.

A democracy is a volcano which conceals the fiery materials of its own destruction. These will produce an eruption and carry desolation in their way.

No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.

With nearly 20 days until Iraq emerges as a free sovereign state for the first time in more than three decades, terrorists have increasingly targeted our country's infrastructure.

We see an extensive program of dismantling state institutions... These are ingredients for catastrophe.

We are succeeding in Iraq. Thank you, America.

We are succeeding in Iraq. It's a tough struggle with setbacks, but we are succeeding.

We are safer, the region is safer, the world is safer without Saddam.

We are losing each day an average 50 to 60 people throughout the country, if not more. If this is not civil war, then God knows what civil war is.

These are facts, these are not imaginary things.

Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

It is our people who are sitting in the dark because of these cowardly and treacherous attacks, not our occupiers.

I can't go out with a Republican.

And so I have studied, I have to tell you, revolutions and uprisings for a long time. They are all slightly different, but what they all look for is some kind of a mechanism to go from an authoritarian system to an open, democratic system.

I think women are really good at making friends and not good at networking. Men are good at networking and not necessarily making friends. That's a gross generalization, but I think it holds in many ways.

I have said this many times, that there seems to be enough room in the world for mediocre men, but not for mediocre women, and we really have to work very, very hard.

One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you