All Americans need a sense of place. That's what makes our physical surroundings worth caring about.

It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.

There was a time... when people didn't go out of their house on Tuesday night at eight o'clock because Milton Berle was on.

God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world.

There is no planning. On the night it is really great, it's euphoria and if it is not so great there is always tomorrow night. That was his attitude.

I have learned two important lessons from my association with the Marine Corps: always be on time and always be ready to do what is required when you get there.

The image of a community is fundamentally important to its economic well-being. If all places look alike, there's no reason to go anywhere.