Once you sink that first stake, they'll never make you pull it up

If the ends don't justify the means, what does?

Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.

You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim.

There is no cannibalism in the British navy, absolutely none, and when I say none, I mean there is a certain amount.

Power is a drug on which the politicians are hooked. They buy it from the voters, using the voters' own money.

When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

Public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly.

No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad.

The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York