No one knows this better than Sanford Weill, the ex-Citigroup CEO (he remains chairman through 2006) who owns property in the Adirondacks and has contributed money to Paul Smith's College there.

Others have had their names emblazoned on Carnegie Hall as well; more recently Sanford Weill and the Weill Family Foundation topped the $100 million mark for combined contributions to Carnegie Hall.

“That doesn’t mean our work is done,” Buttigieg told moderator Celeste Watkins-Hayes, the Joan and Sanford Weill Dean of Public Policy. “It doesn’t mean any single piece of our transportation system ...