I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
Politics is compromise.
We have to make their livelihoods viable, get them the proper prices for their produce, try and make them stay rather than sell their property and leave again.
Politics is about putting yourself in a state of grace.
People do not want politicians they know to be corrupt.
One of the great barriers to peace in the Middle East is that both sides, both Israel and the Palestinians, do not understand that they share a collective destiny.