It is the union of independence and dependence of these branches - legislative, executive and judicial - and of the governmental functions possessed by each of them, that constitutes the marvellous genius of this unrivalled document.
One in four sub-Saharan Africans is Nigerian, and it has 140 million dynamic people - chaotic people - but very interesting people.
If we save people from HIV/AIDS, if we save them from malaria, it means they can form the base of production for our economy.
I can take hardship. I can sleep on the cold floor anytime. I can also sleep on a feather bed.
I felt Nigeria didn't have to succumb to the image of being a corrupt country; we didn't have to let the economy stagnate.
I'm told I'm like my father, and he was the most wonderful man. But I think he was gentler than me.
No one can fight corruption for Nigerians except Nigerians. Everyone has to be committed from the top to the bottom to fight it.
My career has been wacky and not at all normal. I've never had a manager, nobody gets jobs for me. I wind up working with artists that I meet.
Things aren't much wilder now, I don't think, than they were back then. Of course I just read about all the goings-on now. Ha.
No man with a conscience can just bat out illustrations. He's got to put all his talent and feeling into them!
The View of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and the ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.
I've managed to convince my wife that somewhere in the Bible it says, 'Man cannot have too many shotguns and fishing poles.'
Fish are a renewable resource, and one of the problems we've had is people feel obliged to catch the limit, then throw 'em in the garbage can.
There's no doubt in my mind that whichever commander ordered the blowing up of Kamisiyah did so in following the instructions that he had received.
If Saddam were to be replaced tomorrow he would probably be replaced with someone who's just as bad or worse than he is.
Carpet bombing tends to portray something that's totally indiscriminate, you know, en masse without regard to the target.
Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality.
Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance.
I constructed a laboratory in the neighborhood of Pike's Peak. The conditions in the pure air of the Colorado Mountains proved extremely favorable for my experiments, and the results were most gratifying to me.
The newspapers of the twenty-first century will give a mere 'stick' in the back pages to accounts of crime or political controversies, but will headline on the front pages the proclamation of a new scientific hypothesis.
The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
