"When you talk about the oil wealth you compare nations. There are some nations with less than five million people. Nigeria has 150 million people. I cannot say that all the money earned from oil since 1958, when the first drop of oil was exported from this country to date, that the money has been effectively used."

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Source : Interview with Isha Sesay, www.cnn.com. September 30, 2010.

Goodluck Jonathan

#Country Quotes #Oil Quotes #People Quotes

“After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.”
“I train my kids to dream really big and impossible dreams and to pursue them doggedly.”

Source : Source: bigthink.com
“I was always interested in finding the elegance of each style and understanding why it influences so many people.”
“What really helps me is being able to record my albums at home - I have more fun experimenting that way, as opposed to working with an engineer, in which case I have to deal with the humiliation of doing take after take, and that can get frustrating.”
“We must be mad, literally mad, as a nation to be permitting the annual inflow of some 50,000 dependents, who are for the most part the material of the future growth of the immigrant-descended population. It is like watching a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.”

Source : John Enoch Powell (1991). “Reflections of a Statesman: The Writings and Speeches of Enoch Powell”, Bellew Publishing
“We need to make a distinction between misled Iraqis, those who believe that they are carrying weapons to liberate Iraq from what they call occupation, and criminal gangs that came from outside and wants to wage a deadly war on the Iraqi people, killing women and children in mosques and churches.”
“I'm just steadily building myself up as Kelly Rowland, not just Kelly Rowland of Destiny's Child, which is a blessing to be able to do that.”
“I think being an only child created in me a degree of self-reliance, which I'm glad of. It made me perfectly happy with my own company and perhaps was good conditioning for the protracted solitude of writing books as slowly as I do.”

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