"When you fight corruption, it fights back."

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Source : "Nuhu Ribadu, Fighting Corruption in Nigeria". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. April 4, 2007.

Nuhu Ribadu

#Fighting Quotes #Corruption Quotes

“An attempt to gain a value by deceiving the mind of others is an act of raising your victims to a position higher than reality.”
“I was raised by ex-hippies, but I grew up worshipping a television set. I am skeptical of a lot of things, but I was on Myspace and Friendster, and I have a fascination with the new. My wife and I met on Facebook!”

Source : Source: www.motherjones.com
“The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera”
“You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it.”
“I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.”

Source : Palin’s Speech at the Republican National Convention, www.nytimes.com. September 03, 2008.
“You can take a good picture of anything. A bad one, too.”
“Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that.”
“Late one night our house was attacked with stones and bricks by five or six young Christians, and my father got very upset and frightened. Well, the next day he dropped dead of a heart attack. The community knew very well that he had a heart condition, so I lay a murder to the city of Baltimore.”

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