I pushed the process forward by saying, 'We should do this, this, and this right now. Please find the budget for me to find a structural engineer, a mechanical engineer, a civil engineer, so we can do the preliminary work.

I'm a little more measured. That sense of urgency I thought accompanied things - it can take a little longer. You have to take the long view.

You can just never desist. You have to always push back, whatever the pressures put on you.

For two years nobody talked about anything other than the name arrangement. There was no fund-raising and no progress being made on construction and design.

I love New York, but I'd felt like an outsider here.

It sounds really over the top to say you're responsible for the city of New York, but I do feel responsibility to the city of New York, to this country, to people everywhere. So many people were affected by the events of September 11, and I feel this is one of the ways that that event will be understood and defined.

I believe that people are fundamentally are decent. And, yes, you will have people that sometimes will misbehave.