Robert Moses quotes
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“l have no fear of change as such and, on the other hand, no liking for it merely for its own sake.”
-- Robert MosesSource : "Aircraft Carrier: The Commission Comes To a Fork In the Ocean". Remarks by Commissioner Isaac C. Hunt, Jr., U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, at the Practicing Law Institute's 30th Annual Institute on Securities Regulation, New York, November 05, 1998.
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“You can draw any kind of picture you want on a clean slate and indulge your every whim in the wilderness in laying out a New Delhi, Canberra, or Brasilia, but when you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax.”
-- Robert MosesSource : "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro, (p. 849), 1974.
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“Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.”
-- Robert MosesSource : Robert Moses (1970). “Public Works: A Dangerous Trade”
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“When you operate in an overbuilt metropolis, you have to hack your way with a meat ax,”
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“If you elect a matinee idol mayor, you're going to have a musical comedy administration.”
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“Unfortunately there are still people in other areas who regard New York City not as part of the United States, but as a sort of excrescence fastened to our Eastern shore and peopled by the less venturesome waves of foreigners who failed to go West to the genuine American frontier.”
-- Robert MosesSource : Robert Moses (1956). “Working for the People: Promise and Performance in Public Service”
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“[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.”
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“Every true New Yorker believes with all his heart that when a New Yorker is tired of New York, he is tired of life.”
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“Those who can, build. Those who can't, criticize.”
-- Robert MosesSource : Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick's State of the City Address, www.crainsdetroit.com. March 11, 2008.
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“He continued to be an infant long after he ceased to be a prodigy.”
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“I raise my stein to the builder who can remove ghettos without removing people as I hail the chef who can make omelets without breaking eggs.”
-- Robert MosesSource : "Robert Moses, Master Builder, is Dead at 92" by Paul Goldberger, archive.nytimes.com. July 30, 1981.
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