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We're a botanical garden that has display facilities 365 days a year. The Smithsonian doesn't. [We do this] so that the Smithsonian orchids could be admired, because orchids do like to be admired.

Carol Allen

I wanted to figure out how to preserve what is really important for the average person. I figured, who better to do this than the experts at the Smithsonian?

Louisa Jaggar

I was privileged to have known the chief justice for many years and to have had the pleasure of serving with him on the Smithsonian Board of Regents. We also have shared a love for the beautiful land and the independent people of Vermont, a place that served as a special refuge for the chief justice and his family over the years.

Bernie Sanders

He (Holbrook) said he has one of the first Mark Twain costumes he wore on stage and was saving it until The Smithsonian called. We said we could find a place for it until they do.

Lee Warren

That's super-important to us. We're a part of the Smithsonian, the national museum of the United States. We need to be taken seriously. At the core of it, we're an educational entity.

Richard Burgess

[The Museum of the Rockies is doing a] spectacular job, ... This is a more open door to the Smithsonian.

Larry Small

Nah, the Smithsonian doesn't ask for anything back from Gilligan, ... They haven't dropped that low yet.

Bob Denver

Some years ago the Smithsonian wanted a T-rex for its new dinosaur hall.

Jack Horner

That chair should be in the Smithsonian.

Larry Walters

They figure in a sort of musée imaginaire, half Madame Tussaud's, half Smithsonian, of American crime.

F. W. Dupree

I think all the projections show this is going to be win, win, win for McDonald's, the Smithsonian and the millions of visitors who go there.

Walt Riker

Smithsonian researcher Linda Perry's analysis of starch grains extracted from sediment samples and stone tools discovered at the site revealed two kinds of corn that had been ground into flour. No one has found a record of either from anywhere near this time for this part of Peru. At this early time period, agricultural hadn't been demonstrated in the highlands of Peru, Bolivia or Chile.

Dan Sandweiss

The mission of the Smithsonian is to increase the diffusion of knowledge, not the diffusion of junk food.

Gary Ruskin

It was a surprise, ... We knew we were going to Washington, D.C., to take part in the First Americans Festival at the opening of the National Museum for the American Indian, with the Smithsonian, but we did not know that we had been invited to sing at the White House until we were already in Washington. So that was pretty exciting.

Kay Henderson