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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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"The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."
"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?"
"Sometimes I wonder if I got lulled into not wanting things because I grew up black in this country."
"Each had defended his own country; the Germans Germany, the Frenchmen France; they had done their duty."
"We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it."
"What's bad for the country is always good for The Nation."
"To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing things. Privacy is not a great preoccupation, and this is a very crowded country."
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"Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't."
"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 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."
"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."
"I think these are very improper questions for any American to be asked, especially under such compulsion as this. I would be very glad to tell you my life if you want to hear of it."
"Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business."
"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 want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other."
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