There is no leading nation in the world that does not support the arts, usually two, three, ten times as much as we do. Why should we be different? Public arts funding is a concept that stands beside public education as an obligation a government has to its people and to history.
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Arts Advocacy Breakfast; as quoted in [chrisreevehomepage.com “Statement on Introduced Bill H.R. 1520 National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities Act" (House of Representatives - March 16, 1995)