Diplomats are just as essential to starting a war as soldiers are for finishing it... You take diplomacy out of war, and the thing would fall flat in a week.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Show me a healthy community with a healthy economy and I will show you a community that has its green infrastructure in order and understands the relationship between the built and the unbuilt environment.

There are two theories to arguing with a woman. Neither works.

There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.

Let Wall Street have a nightmare and the whole country has to help them back to bed again.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.