Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

To meet Roosevelt with all his buoyant sparkle, his iridescence, was like opening a bottle of champagne.

Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.

A medal glitters but it also casts a shadow

You may try to destroy all the wealth and find that all you have done is increase poverty.

We must build a kind of United States of Europe.