Muhammadu Buhari Quotes

#1. A few people have privately voiced fears that on coming back to office I shall go after them. These fears are groundless. There will be no paying off old scores. The past is prologue.

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#2. Stories are always braided together - one affecting the other.

Patti Callahan Henry

#3. been a loyal agent to this

Winter Renshaw

#4. I get it, let's just all write SOS on the ballot. Same Old Shit!

Rodney Ross

#5. I sat on cushioned otter-skin:
My word was law from Ith to Emain,
And shook at Invar Amargin
The hearts of the world-troubling seamen,
And drove tumult and war away ...

William Butler Yeats

#6. People have been voting to choose their leader but their votes were never allowed to COUNT, I will not allow the choice of the people to be subverted by any party, not even APC

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#7. The misappropriation of resources provided by the government for weapons means the Nigerian military is unable to beat Boko Haram.

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#8. We must vigilantly stand on guard within our own borders for human rights and fundamental freedoms which are our proud heritage ... w e cannot take for granted the continuance and maintenance of those rights and freedoms.

John Diefenbaker

#9. While Egyptian speakers learned Greek, it was rare that anyone ventured in the opposite direction. To the punishing study of Egyptian, however, Cleopatra applied herself. She was allegedly the first and only Ptolemy to bother to learn the language of the 7 million people over whom she ruled.

Stacy Schiff

#10. I would like to thank President Goodluck Jonathan for his display of statesmanship in setting a precedent for us that has now made our people proud to be Nigerians wherever they are.

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#11. Boko Haram will soon know the strength of our collective will

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#12. When besieged, I'm calm as a baby. When all hell breaks loose, I'm collected and cool.

Eugene H. Peterson

#13. We cannot build an economy where corruption is the working capital

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#14. We are asking Nigerians for their cooperation. They shouldn't expect miracles to happen a couple of months after we've taken over because the destruction took so many years - 16 years of the ruling party's rule of this country.

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#15. We don't have a gun problem; we have a math problem: ZERO GUNS = ZERO GUN-RELATED DEATHS.

Quentin R. Bufogle

#16. It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not true that all folk beliefs are equally valid - if we're talking not about an internal mindset, but about understanding of the external reality.

Carl Sagan

#17. We are glorious accidents of an unpredictable process with no drive to complexity, not the expected results of evolutionary principles that yearn to produce a creature capable of understanding the mode of its own necessary construction.

Stephen Jay Gould

#18. When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport,
But creep in crannies when he hides his beams.

William Shakespeare

#19. There are many reasons why vulnerable young people join militant groups, but among them are poverty and ignorance. Indeed Boko Haram - which translates in English, roughly, as 'Western Education Is Sinful' - preys on the perverted belief that the opportunities that education brings are sinful.

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#20. He had my name tattooed over his heart. That promise I felt to my core ...

T.A. Webb

#21. I belong to everybody, and I belong to nobody.

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#22. I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country.

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#23. The purpose of computers is human freedom.

Ted Nelson

#24. Beauty is the only master to serve.

Jack London

#25. As far as the constitution allows me, I will try to ensure that there is responsible and accountable governance at all levels of government in the country. For I will not have kept my own trust with the Nigerian people if I allow others abuse theirs under my watch.

Muhammadu Buhari

#26. Boosting education will be a direct counterbalance to Boko Haram's appeal. In particular we must educate more young girls, ensuring they will grow up to be empowered through learning to play their full part as citizens of Nigeria and pull themselves up and out of poverty.

Muhammadu Buhari