"as my colleague Alan Burr said, we chose to be shot in our foot and not in our head."
"I appreciate it, sir. Thank you, Mr. Chairman."
"This process has been in the dark, that there has been no transparency."
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"This is a very unusual hearing. I cannot help but feel that we are micromanaging something well outside our purview."
"I am not an art critic. I doodle, but I do not consider it art."
"However, I do not think this subcommittee, the full Committee, or Congress is the appropriate place to litigate a memorial design or a potential family dispute."
"I don't think this subcommittee, this Committee, or Congress is the appropriate place to litigate a memorial design or a potential family dispute."
"the family is committed to playing its role in assuring that the process and the design reflect an open and transparent process."
"To say that the Eisenhower family had gone along with every aspect of this process would not be correct, and we found it important to correct the record."
"first of all, he was a very modest man. He would have expected something far less dramatic, far less--he would have wanted something on a smaller scale, I believe."
"I don't believe in blind trust."