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

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.

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

When I was in the Army, the unit I served in, you could never stop. It was a volunteer unit, and there was a fairly high rate of attrition. The people who stayed through are the people who were either great at it or the people who just didn't know how to stop. And I fell into that second category.

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 had a dual role: designer and advocate.