They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.

Kennedy did not have to run the risk of having his ideas and his words shortened and adulterated by a correspondent. This was the television era, not only in campaigning, but in holding the presidency.

The legions of reporters who cover politics don't want to quit the clash and thunder of electoral combat for the dry duty of analyzing the federal budget. As a consequence, we have created the perpetual presidential campaign.

A sense of humor... is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.

The prime minister found something hopeful in the man's eyes and manner. The 30 or so people who run this world analyze one another that way and then make decisions of life and death for us. Scary, but true.

A White House dinner is the American family assembled, from labor leaders to billionaires, actors, architects, academicians and athletes.

The problems seem so easy out there on the stump. Deficits shrink with a rhetorical flourish.

They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.

The sanctity of our battlefields, monuments, and veterans institutions is of utmost importance to preserve military history and pay respect to those who fought.

I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments.

As I passed along the side walls of Westminster Abbey, I hardly saw any thing but marble monuments of great admirals, but which were all too much loaded with finery and ornaments, to make on me at least, the intended impression.

People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.

My hope lies with people who never go to Washington except to see the monuments.

Protecting all this land, working with the President to establish all these monuments, to, you know... I think the President has a land protection record that's second to no one in this century, maybe Teddy Roosevelt.

There are thousands of Ten Commandments plaques or monuments all over the country, and lawsuits to remove them have popped up in more than a dozen states.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

Our democracy is not a product but a continual process. It is preserved not by monuments but deeds. Sometimes it needs refining; sometimes it needs amending; sometimes it needs defending. Always, it needs improving.

Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death.

When smashing monuments, save the pedestals - they always come in handy.

Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.

Art is very tricky because it's what you do for yourself. It's much harder for me to make those works than the monuments or the architecture.

Peace has its victories no less than war, but it doesn't have as many monuments to unveil.

Memory is the treasure house of the mind wherein the monuments thereof are kept and preserved.

I think the people will- who advocate having a step back and read those public opinion polls on the front page of the newspapers all over this country saying public supports restoration in restoration of the Everglades, protection of the parks and the creation of monuments.

The monuments of the nations are all protests against nothingness after death; so are statues and inscriptions; so is history.

Instead of causing us to remember the past like the old monuments, the new monuments seem to cause us to forget the future.

What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.

Who could look on these monuments without reflecting on the vanity of mortals in thus offering up testimonials of their respect for persons of whose very names posterity is ignorant?

They can see the brave silhouette from almost anywhere in the District of Columbia and use it as a compass to locate other monuments and eventually to find their way out of the great, gray federal wilderness.

It is unacceptable that disabled veterans in Illinois rank at the bottom of the list when it comes to disability pay. We owe our disabled veterans more than speeches, parades and monuments.

'Monuments Men' is not a docudrama. It's not a documentary.

Are there any monuments built to demagogues? I just don't think so.

One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

It is like living in a wilderness of mirrors. No fact goes unchallenged.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Madam Speaker, I have spent more than half my life as a member of the Resources Committee. In that time I have supported numerous wilderness designations. In fact, I cannot recall ever opposing a wilderness bill.

None know how often the hand of God is seen in a wilderness but them that rove it for a man's life.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

As one who has often felt this need, and who has found refreshment in wild places, I attest to the recreational value of wilderness.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

We of America are especially fitted to visualize and to understand the marvellous transformation of a wilderness into a land of splendid cities.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

I believe that Ronald Reagan will someday make this country what it once was... an arctic wilderness.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man.