“The ideal weapons system is built in 435 congressional districts and it doesn’t matter whether it works or not.”

Society is built on marriage … marriage and its consequences.

The Spirit is both a builder and a dweller. He cannot dwell where he has not built; He builds to dwell and dwells in only what he has built.

It is only by historical analysis that we can discover what makes up man, since it is only in the course of history that he is formed.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

I have never had illusions about the value of my individual contribution! I realized early that what a man or a woman does is built on what those who have gone before have done, that its real value depends on making the matter in hand a little clearer.

I have a lot of anger built up in me from my childhood. My wife and kids are the only ones who give me peace in this world.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

This decade is strewn with examples of bright people who thought they built a better mousetrap that could consistently extract abnormal returns from the financial markets.