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.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.

No Government has the moral authority to dismantle the universally understood meaning of marriage.

I've never quite understood why people marry marriage is just an invented structure.

I haven't understood a bar of music in my life but I have felt it.

Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood.

I believe that President Clinton considered the legal merits of the arguments for the pardon as he understood them and he rendered his judgment wise or unwise on the merits.

Upon the Constitution upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People as understood in this country and in England I have argued that this House is bound to revive the Petition under debate.

That is what learning is. You suddenly understand something you've understood all your life but in a new way.

Alliances and international organizations should be understood as opportunities for leadership and a means to expand our influence not as constraints on our power.

The more I have studied Lincoln the more I have followed his thought processes the more I am convinced that he understood leadership better than any other American president.

And I'm walking along and we're laughing kidding joking and see he understood the leader the one we called the leader had some knowledge of English although limited.

Without a knowledge of mythology much of the elegant literature of our own language cannot be understood and appreciated.

No part of the world can be truly understood without a knowledge of its garment of vegetation for this determines not only the nature of the animal inhabitants but also the occupations of the majority of human beings.

A man can only attain knowledge with the help of those who possess it. This must be understood from the very beginning. One must learn from him who knows.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense as a method for comprehending all observable reality and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

The knower and the known are one. Simple people imagine that they should see God as if he stood there and they here. This is not so. God and I we are one in knowledge.

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led and bearding every authority which stood in their way.

Jealousy would be far less torturous if we understood that love is a passion entirely unrelated to our merits.

Elia Kazan understood my problems. He was able to bring out the very best in me. He gave me credit for my intelligence.

I hope that America as a whole and especially its architects will become more seriously involved in producing a new architectural culture that would bring the nation to the apex - where it has stood before - and lead the world.

I've flown across America I've scaled fences I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.