“It's good to see so many friends here in the Rose Garden. This is our first event in this beautiful spot, and it's appropriate we talk about policy that will affect people's lives in a positive way in such a beautiful, beautiful part of our national - really, our national park system, my guess is you would want to call it.” PeopleWayWantFirstsHumorBeautifulPoliticalEventsPolicyGardenRoseSpotsParksAppropriatePolitical HumorNational ParksMany FriendsRose Garden Author:George W. Bush
“The power of the silent filibuster to distort Senate politics is now accepted on Capitol Hill and by the press as normal and not worth mentioning. Let me be the skunk at this political garden party and say this stinks. Representative government was not designed to work this way by the Founding Fathers.” WayGovernmentPoliticalFatherPartyNormalGardenLet MePressesSilentAcceptedHillsSenateRepresentativesFoundingStinkCapitolCapitol HillRepresentative GovernmentFilibuster Author:Juan Williams
“We can be hindered in our development and our personal growth by political conditions. Outer circumstances can constrain us. Only when we are free to develop our innate abilities can we live as free beings. But we are just as much determined by inner potential and outer opportunities as the Stone Age boy on the Rhine, the lion in Africa, or the apple tree in the garden.” AgePoliticalOpportunityGrowthAbilityBoysTreeConditionsDevelopmentCircumstancesGardenStonesPersonal GrowthDeterminedApplesLionsInnateConstrainApple TreesStone Age Author:Jostein Gaarder
“When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed by the ideal representation of the past, thus reinforcing political and social values that are no longer with us” PastPoliticalArtistValuesSocialCenturyIdealsGardenFinishedGardeningRepresentation20th CenturySculpture18th CenturySocial ValuesFinished Work Book:Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings Source: Robert Smithson, the Collected Writings