Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis Quotes

Even if I had nothing to do with the Canada Council, I'd be praying for it.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when it comes to federal funding.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

The arts need funding.

I have written favourably in support of subsidy for the arts since the 1960s, and I continue to believe absolutely in subsidy, as I do in the BBC licence fee.

The establishment in Britain is certainly against the arts and against education. If something doesn't make a profit, it's invalid, and art doesn't make a profit in that sense.

Advertising has always been a huge unrecognised source of outdoor relief for the arts.

It is not true that I oppose government funding of the arts.

In Australia, they set up a special fund to kick films off. It was quite an enlightened sort of move. You could go to this government bureau with scripts and and get finance for films.

I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.

Lillian Gish thought that there should be a cabinet position for the arts and I think she was right. I think she was right.

[Describing the White House:] ... temple of inconvenience.

I enjoy campaigning because my husband makes the speeches and I receive the roses.

No sane person with a life really wants to be a political activist. When activism is exciting, it tends to involve the risk of bodily harm or incarceration, and when it's safe, it is often tedious, dry, and boring. Activism tends to put one into contact with extremely unpleasant people, whether they are media interviewers, riot cops, or at times, your fellow activists. Not only that, it generates enormous feelings of frustration and rage, makes your throat sore from shouting, and hurts your feet.

I saw the real difference between politicians who supported programs like Head Start and those who didn't. I started getting really excited about politics.

We're going to continue to move forward and fight. I just think that, unfortunately, the president-elect [Donald Trump] has chosen to address every issue.

I don't want to live in a world where Donald Trump is the President. He is not doing anything in Baltimore, but I am dedicated to using whatever platform I have to make sure that he is not the President. This is not simply a disagreement about ideas. It's a disagreement about values, and the values that he espouses are values of bigotry and hate, and that isn't OK.

Those who can do. Those who can't form a supercommittee.

I ran because I became convinced after King was shot and killed, and Martin Luther King was one of the great heroes of my life, that politics is not perfect but it's the best available nonviolent means of changing how we live. If we don't like how we live, we can participate in the perfect most revolutionary act in a democracy, it's called voting.

I'm not running for president to be somebody, I'm running for president to do something!

Politics is a thankless occupation; I have no interest in it at all.

(I'm) the only one to take out half a brain, although you would think, if you go to Washington, that someone had beat me to it.

Write to your newspaper. Call your Member of Congress. Email President Obama. Speak out for a cleaner, more stable future for all of us.

Procurement is a major technique of state subsidy.

Life in America is nothing but struggle, you gotta continue to try to overcome. Keep organizing, Obama said, keep organizing, grab a clipboard, get your signatures and start protesting, run for office yourself, but the shtruggle, the shtruggle is what defines us and we must continue with the shtruggle. Just pathetic, folks, the whole thing is pathetic.