Frank Lloyd Wright addressing a crowd of students and faculty at the University of California, Berkeley in 1957, two years before his death.

"Why should government ever be entrusted to build buildings? Inevitably buildings are for tomorrow. That is the last thing government should be expected or allowed to do because in entrusting building to government, we must go ten or one-hundred years backward instead of ten years ahead into the future. Tragic! But to talk against it is just so much water over the dam. The driver may not know where to go but he is in the driver's seat."- FLW