"Who would design a building that evokes dread in everyone who looks at it? Well petty authoritarians who hate other people & want them to suffer."
"This is a great country, it deserves to be a beautiful country."
"Our world has turned its back on beauty & because of that we find ourselves surrounded by ugliness & alienation. I want to persuade you that beauty matters, that it is not just a subjective thing but a universal need of human beings."
"It matters because the buildings around you are what instill pride, what connect you w/ your ancestors, things that lift up the human mind & the human eye to greater things. They ennoble us" #MakeDCBeautifulAgain
"[T]his order would do more than any move in recent history to undo the 1960s & '70s blight every person passing through a major city is subjected to" -@CBedfordDC
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