Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 96 |
| AUTHOR: | John Fitzgerald Kennedy (1917–63) |
| QUOTATION: | I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all of our citizens. And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its strength but for its civilization as well. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President Inscription on the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C. |
| SUBJECTS: | Arts |