Olusegun Obasanjo Quotes

We regard America and Europe as old friends. We keep old friends, but we make new friends in Japan, India, and China.

Femi Fani Kayode is my boy. Provide him food, he will eat and then sing for you. He's a smart boy

When I left office in 1979, I was about the only one who had really left public office on my own.

Unfortunately, the true force which propels our endless political disputes, our constant struggles for political advantage, is often not our burning concern for democracy, it is often of our dedication to the principle of the rule of law.

Even Jesus Christ cannot conduct a free and fair election in Nigeria.

We will work to bring an element of stability to the price of oil.

Yet there comes a time in the life of a patriot when abdication would amount to a betrayal if not outright treachery.

another drawback is inadequate training. Management training on a regular basis is a sine-qua-non for good performance in management. The principles of management are basically the same as they involve men, money and materials. Applications vary slightly depending on the nature of what is being managed, at what level and for what purpose. New ideas, innovations and new practices may emerge from time to time which a manager needs to be conversant with. Otherwise he will be way behind or even obsolete. Training and exposure act as tonic for renewal and reshaping of a manager. There can be no adequate substitute for such training, interaction and exposure until one ceases to be an active manager. To think that once one is in management position, there is no further need for training through formal and informal interaction and exposure is, I believe, the height of folly.

School is not meant for the poor, only for the rich.

Corruption, the greatest single bane of our society today.

There is no part of the world where corruption is absolutely eliminated.

I am a black man inside and outside and you are white men on the outside, but inside, you are Africans like me.

I believe God knew what he was doing when he put oil under our ground. It should be a means to an end.

Fighting corruption is not a one-night affair.

My joy knows no bounds ... I will devote all my energy and all the powers available to me to the service of Nigeria and humanity.

We will as soon as possible reexamine our laws and policies and eliminate all obstacles to genuine investment.

What the oil producer gets paid is about 16 percent. The majority of it is tax, which in fairness to the government of this country they have accepted and admitted.

North and south must also adopt measures to arrest the growing phenomenon of illegal capital flight and the repatriation of illicit wealth siphoned abroad by corrupt political leaders and their collaborators back to their countries of origin,

Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

If I am not above the law, nobody in this country can then claim to be above the law.

I don't see why anybody should worry,