“Rather like an aging samurai or a 19th-century empire builder who has lived past his time, Robert Moses remains proud of his monuments and cannot accept the modern challenge to his build-at-any-price ethic.”
"Rohatyn doesn't want to waste money on people. He wants to build a pyramid to the ego, another World Trade Center, another World's Fair, another Albany Mall"
Rocky was no philistine precursor to the Tea Party ("Rockefeller Republican" — socially liberal, fiscally conservative — was not always a pejorative in the GOP), but he did suffer from the arrogance of inherited wealth.
