Top 15 Yemi Osinbajo Quotes

We are in a democracy and there is a process by which things can be done and that process is the one where you bring forward amendments to the National Assembly and they will do whatever is considered useful in the circumstance.

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

Many of the ethnic and other parochial tensions that have tended to create insecurity and outright conflict, time and time again, are largely as a result of failure to deliberately undertake nation-building efforts.

Africa cannot afford to underestimate the power of technology to fast-track the continent's rise. Emerging technologies have played extraordinary roles in every aspect of the continent's most touted successes.

Africa Rising is as much about improving standards of governance as it is about an increasingly confident youths and civil society. It is also about businessmen and women who are stepping beyond national borders and going global.

It will be wrong of us to approach our grievances by threatening to disobey the laws or by threatening the integrity of our nation.

As we move to diversify our economy, we are particularly aware that we need oil to get out of oil.

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

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.

It is the resolve of the government that none will be allowed to get away with making speeches that can cause sedition or that can cause violence, especially because when we make these kinds of pronouncement and do things that can cause violence or destruction of lives and property, we are no longer in control.

We in Africa must prepare our economies in that direction that attracts such huge and qualitative investments. It is for us to push, and we must push.

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

The quality and quantum of potential investors in Africa is huge.

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.

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.