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" If people are stealing the resources of this nation, if people are taking bribes - if judges or persons in authority, whether they are judges or whoever they may be in government, ministers, whoever, if they are taking bribes - it attacks the fundament of our existence as a society. "

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" The Nigerian economy is a huge one. "

" Great economies and great nations, prosperity, and abundance of nations and communities are created by men and not spirits. "

" There is no wisdom of man that can change men or change nations; it is the power and wisdom of God that can. "

" The carnal nature of man is that he places his tribe above others, but the only basis for the power and unity of the church is that there is no Jew or Gentile. "

" The truth is that many, if not most, nations of the world are made up of different peoples - and cultures and beliefs and religions - who find themselves thrown together by circumstance. "

" We in Nigeria have seen just how difficult it is to get back stolen assets from the international financial system, such as banks that ought not have received those funds in the first place if even the most routine questions were asked. "

" Nigeria is still grappling with the negative consequences of the use of opacity by senior members of government and their cronies between 1993 and 1998, awarding themselves juicy contracts in the extractive industry. "

" Nigeria's unity is one for which enough blood has been spilled and many hundreds of thousands of lives have been lost. Many have paid for the unity of this country with their lives, and it will be wrong of us, as men and women of goodwill in this generation, to toy with those sacrifices that have been made. "

" If the church says you are not allowed to steal, and we will ostracize you in our midst if you did, if what a man has does not measure up to what he has, if we found that a man has more money than he should have, if a man is earning a salary of a civil servant or a public servant and he has houses everywhere, we have to hold him to account. "

" We are committed to a continuous engagement with our people to explain government policies, receive advice and criticism. "

" The values of integrity and hard work are necessary for the development of our nation. "

" Economic growth is not sustainable without nation-building and, even of greater importance, state building. "

" The most important thing for Africa is that whoever wants to invest in our countries should start in manufacturing. "

" You are not born corrupt. We want to change that mind-set of the people. "

" No matter how much you pray or fast, our country cannot grow without some of us deciding to do the hard work that makes nations work. "

" Any nation that does not emphasize integrity will always fail. "

" It doesn't matter where one starts from; it doesn't matter at all where you start from. It is how committed you are, how determined you are, and how hardworking you are that will ultimately make the difference. "

" The reason we have Christian president and Muslim vice president or Muslim president and Christian vice president is to have balance. "

" The most important thing is that we are on the right path, and we will not deviate from it, even in the face of strong temptation to choose temporary gains over long-term benefits. "

" Our diversity as a people united is also our potential to transform our large deposits of mineral resources and use same for national development. "

" As you fight corruption, it fights back. "

" If this government is doing the right thing by fighting corruption, the Church should support it. "

" I want to say that this business of corruption and the fight against corruption is a very serious matter, and sometimes I'm amazed that very little is being said outside of those who are saying so in government. It's an existential matter. I don't know whether it is possible to overemphasize the point, but I think it's a very crucial matter. "

" It is not possible for one tribe to dominate another based on the way God has structured the country. "

" Corruption and illicit financial flows are different. But they really must be twinned. This is because, for practical purposes, it is an eminently more sensible approach to treat most of the sources of illicit financial flows as corrupt activity, within a broader use of the term. "

" You don't have to cheat or steal to be successful in life, but you must be ready to convert your challenges to opportunity. "

" No economy can tolerate the level of corruption seen in Nigeria without consequences. "

" If there is one person in Nigeria that believes that petroleum prices should not go up by one naira, it is President Buhari. "

Yemi Osinbajo

Nigeria

" I understand the law of sowing and reaping. It is a spiritual law that has tremendous physical implications. Every time that we delay or frustrate what we can do today, leaving it till tomorrow, we hold back the future. We, too, must reap what we have sown by experiencing delays. "