“In America, we know to ignore artists if they're serious in any way.”

“Any nation that expects to be ignorant and free," Jefferson said, "expects what never was and never will be." And if the gap between the educated and the uneducated in America continues to grow as it is in our time, as fast as or faster than the gap between the rich and the poor, the gap between the educated and the uneducated is going to be of greater consequence and the more serious threat to our way of life. We must not, by any means, misunderstand that.”

“I don't think there's any artist of any value that does not doubt what they're doing.”

“Today I say to you that the challenges we face are real. They are serious and they are many. They will not be met easily or in a short span of time. But know this, America — they will be met.”

“America has an internal enemy more deadly than any terrorist -- it's called ignorance.”

“People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.”