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"One of the things I'm most proud of about my country is the fact that we did lick McCarthyism back in the fifties."
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"I believed in Bobby Kennedy. Campaigning for him was an attempt to give back something to this country that has given me so much."
"I opened my own restaurant when I was 17. I went broke, then traveled around the country, learning about different kinds of foods, had three other restaurants that went broke. It didn't all start just a few years ago!"
"I think it is wrong that we went against The U.N. and that we have alienated our allies and invaded a country that hasn't threatened us, that it is a pre-emptive strike."
"My first occupation was to map the country."
"It is necessary to expose the false propaganda of the imperialists and thoroughly dispel the illusion that the imperialists will give up their positions in the colonies and dependent countries with good will."
"This country would be a better place to live in if all the resources we currently put toward criminalizing marijuana were instead spent by law enforcement on protection from real crime, as opposed to victimless crime."
"New Zealand is a country of thirty thousand million sheep, three million of whom think they are human."
"There was a lot of protest after Bravo, from countries like India, for example. India was the first country which came forward and proposed at the United Nations that all of these nuclear tests should be stopped, that there should be a complete ban on nuclear testing."
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"I still call myself a communist, because communism is no more what Russia made of it than Christianity is what the churches make of it."
"I like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax."
"I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life."
"I decline to discuss, under compulsion, where I have sung, and who has sung my songs, and who else has sung with me, and the people I have known."
"Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business."
"But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them."
"I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other."
"Down through the centuries, this trick has been tried by various establishments throughout the world. They force people to get involved in the kind of examination that has only one aim and that is to stamp out dissent."
"I am saying voluntarily that I have sung for almost every religious group in the country, from Jewish and Catholic, and Presbyterian and Holy Rollers and Revival Churches."
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