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.

- Bruce Babbitt

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

- Cory Booker

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

- Frank Wedekind

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

- Grant Heslov

'Monuments Men' is a movie... I don't want to say for grown-ups, because some young folks could appreciate it, too. But if you're expecting 'Transformers,' you're going to be disappointed.

- Grant Heslov

If you go to Gettysburg and take the time, maybe take a tour, maybe just drive around, read some of the monuments, read some of the plaques, you will come away changed.

- Jeff Shaara

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

- Kin Hubbard

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

- Lew Wallace

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.

- Maya Lin

It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.

- P. J. O'Rourke

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.

- Phyllis Schlafly

I think that some people get wrapped up in their own egos. They need to see certain album sales and certain monuments.

- Solange Knowles

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

- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

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.

- Tommy Douglas