Charlton Heston Quotes

As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.

I asked the man on the phone from the National Endowment for the Arts what this fellowship entailed, and he said, 'Well, first there's $10,000.' I asked him, 'Can I pay it in installments?'

The government gave me enough money to go to acting school.

Less money for public media means less access to the arts.

Funding for sports (and the arts) are often the first things facing the chop in difficult times.

It's tough and it should be tough - it should never be easy to be given millions of pounds to make a drama. The coalition government is doing terrible things to the BBC, but drama will survive even if we end up putting on a play in a backroom of a pub.

European museums are all dependent on government financing. The moment European governments are under financial pressure, their budgets are cut.

Mr. Chairman, obviously a $60 million cut in the National Endowment for the Arts would be a disaster.

[I am not for] spending the public money in the encouragement of the Fine Arts. Whether it is to be painting or sculpture, or both; if painting, what sort of painting, what are to be the subjects chosen, and who are to be the artists employed? All these questions furnish ample food for discussion, difference, and dispute.

If there's ever a moment when I am an Anglophile, it's when I see so many theatres in this country that have what I would call federal funding.

Whenever education budgets get tightened, art programs are the first to get cut. Like the enduring popularity of reality TV, this never ceases to amaze me.

I was a teacher for a long time. I taught at a community college: voice, theory, humanities. And nowadays, music education is a dying thing. Funding is being cut more and more and more.

A boatload of government money is indeed a gift. Unless, I suppose, you're one of the saps paying for the cargo.

I'm not a big fan of a lot of government dollars going into research and development for private enterprises... and you're not going to see the House of Representatives, I'm certain, provide a lot of money for research and development for electric vehicles.

Every time the U.S. government makes a low-cost loan to someone, it's investing in them.

The unhappy irony is that, while 'Glee' is hitting the heights, school arts funding is being slashed across the country due to the steep recession and declining tax revenues.

If we get the donations, I think we're going to raise a significant amount of money; some will be used for some administered costs, but the public portion of that will go directly into grants.

No money shall ever be taken from the public treasury, directly or indirectly, in aid of any church, sect, cult, or religious denomination or of any sectarian institution

We are not very good out keeping out things with subsidies.

I'm not going to deprive my constituents of money that's out there.

The reason the National Endowment needs to exist is simply that the not-for-profit sector cannot make it on its own.

I'd clean house at the National Endowment for the Arts ... the place would be shut down, padlocked and fumigated.

I'm a product of Federal spending.

As long as Federal dollars are used to finance art projects, Congress will have the responsibility to its constituents to determine what type of art taxpayer dollars will support.

It's not censorship. It's common sense use of the taxpayer's money.