Sanusi Lamido Sanusi famous quotes

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Subsidy Quotes:Nigeria is not an oil rich country. We are an oil producing country.
-- Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

#Country #Rich Countries #Oil
The task of the intellectual is not one of blending into the opaque consciousness of the tumultuous mob around him, his voice drowned in a cacophony of misdirected protests. His task is to remind them of who they are and what they ought to be. Our values are not to be taken from conduct of our adversaries but from the great heritage of our people.
-- Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

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The state is captive to vested interests.
-- Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

#States #Interest #Captives

American statesmen might like some Europeans more than others and even detect quaint resemblances to their own outlook; but they no more committed themselves to a particular group or country than a nineteenth-century missionary committed himself to the African tribe in which he happened to find himself.
Even if my country remains in war with yours. . .remember. . . i am not your enemy.
A hero would die for his country, but he'd much rather live for it.
Foreign aid is taking money from the poor people of a rich country and giving it to the rich people of a poor country.
Subsidy Quotes:Nigeria is not an oil rich country. We are an oil producing country.
Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning.
To fight, we must have oil for our machine.
If you pour oil and vinegar into the same vessel, you would call them not friends but opponents.
I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered difficult economics problems, when really they have done little more than learn the language in which parts of those problems can be expressed, and the machinery by which they can be handled. When the actual conditions of particular problems have not been studied, such knowledge is little better than a derrick for sinking oil-wells erected where there are no oil-bearing strata.
We know that pumping oil out of the ground does not create many jobs. It does not foster an entrepreneurial spirit, nor does it sharpen critical faculties.

Sanusi Lamido Sanusi famous quotes

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