Rome has not seen a modern building in more than half a century. It is a city frozen in time.

We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.

But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.

Roads are necessary, but the fact that we don't fully recognize that when you build a road you're doing more than building a road - you're building the future development of your city. And, that's what's never dawned on people. It still doesn't, in a way.

I enjoy building more than managing.