"I view great cities as pestilential to..." - Quote by Thomas Jefferson

“Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.”

“The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.”

“A good cause is often injured more by ill-timed efforts of its friends than by the arguments of its enemies. Persuasion, perseverance and patience are the best advocates on questions depending on the will of others.”

“You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.”

“I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.”

“Most cities are nouns. New York's a verb.”

“In those days, most people read newspapers, whereas today, most people do not. What caused this change? One big factor, of course, is that people are a lot stupider than they used to be, although we here in the newspaper industry would never say so in print.”

“Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them.”

“Is it shocking that it's very difficult for a news organization to do news in America now? It's not shocking because we're a culture that doesn't want news. We want entertainment. We want info-tainment. That's why CNN is having problems.”