57 Quotes by Bruce Jackson

Bridges are perhaps the most invisible form of public architecture.

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.

War is grounded in the notion of triumph and defeat. It is zero-sum.

It is not at all clear how much the media influences public opinion and how much public opinion influences the media.

Bridges become frames for looking at the world around us.

The fact that the Arctic, more than any other populated region of the world, requires the collaboration of so many disciplines and points of view to be understood at all, is a benefit rather than a burden.

What is perhaps more worthy of note than how many tsunami dead we've seen, however, is how many other recent dead we have not seen.

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

The key fact missed most often by social scientists utilizing documentary films for data, is this: documentary films are not found or reported things; they're made things.