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This isn't just about today, this about generations to come. And you've got a chance to be the greatest conservation President since Theodore Roosevelt, and I think he's done it.

Nearly every president in the past 100 years has declared national monuments, from Teddy Roosevelt creating the Grand Canyon National Monument to George W. Bush preserving 10 islands and 140,000 square miles of ocean waters in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands.

I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was important.

Of all the men that have run for president in the twentieth century, only George McGovern truly understood what a monument America could be to the human race.

To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.

I didn't realize the president was such an historian.

Next to upholding the Constitution of the United States, the president's highest duty is to protect the security of this country - our national security.

Roosevelt was the one who had the vision to change our policy from isolationism to world leadership. That was a terrific revolution. Our country's never been the same since.

They do not say Roosevelt saved our system. They say he has given us a new one. That is logical.

What makes the Lincoln Memorial so powerful is that it doesn't try to do too much. In effect, it says that he saved the Union.