This nation is never finished. It has to be re-created in each generation.

Our nation Nigeria CAN & MUST become a great place to live, otherwise we will have to answer to more than just the next generation

Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.

When you're talking with a person at this level of the government, at the very highest level, I think you have to be very discreet because he, President Clinton, is very aware that anything he says publicly can have a profound impact on American politics and on world politics.

Democracy makes us articulate our views, defend them, and refine them.

But despite this breathtaking pace, I believe in the capacity of our democracy to meet these challenges.