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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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"What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds."
"I do think the patriotic thing to do is to critique my country. How else do you make a country better but by pointing out its flaws?"
"The attack and our response show just how vital Arizona's military bases are to the defense of our country. We need to do everything we can to protect them."
"What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself."
"I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too."
"No one tells every white person in this country how to be. No one tells every Hispanic, or Asian or Jewish person in this country how to be. There is no single definition of whiteness or single definition of blackness."
"When I started I'd fly across the country to do a gig for a hundred bucks."
"You all know the reasons which have impelled me to renounce the throne. But I want you to understand that in making up my mind I did not forget the country or the empire, which, as Prince of Wales and lately as King, I have for twenty-five years tried to serve."
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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 love my country very dearly, and I greatly resent the implication that some of the places that I have sung and some of the people that I have known, and some of my opinions, whether they are religious or philosophical, make me less of an American."
"I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me."
"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 like to say I'm more conservative than Goldwater. He just wanted to turn the clock back to when there was no income tax."
"But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them."
"Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business."
"Some of my ancestors were religious dissenters who came to America over three hundred years ago. Others were abolitionists in New England in the eighteen forties and fifties."
"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 am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs."
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