When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals. – Bono

In the councils of a state, the question is not so much, what ought to be done? As, what can be done? – Proverb

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government. – Aristotle