I've always argued, unsuccessfully, that there's no point in giving money to the arts unless you educate people in them.
“It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self-conscious people in the world, and the most addicted to the belief that the other nations of the earth are in a conspiracy to under value them.”
“I maintain that every civil rights bill in this country was passed for white people, not for black people.”