Never assume, no matter how strong the temptation, that other people are low-life lying manipulators without a shred of human decency.
Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter.
If someone lacked decency or respect, I didn't allow that person to stay in my world.
I say we have not even had the decency to maintain the assets that our parents and grandparents built for us - our roads, our bridges, our wastewater systems, our sewer systems; by the way, those weren't Bolsheviks, those weren't socialists that built those things for us - much less build the infrastructure we need for the 21st century.
I know that I come from mid-20th century America, urban, specifically downtown New York, specifically an Italian-American area, Roman Catholic - that's who I am. And a part of what I know is there's a decency to people who tried to make a living in the kind of world that was around us and also the Skid Row area of the Bowery; it impressed me.