Quotes tagged ‘McCarthyism’

(4 total)

“Basically I was blacklisted because I had a cute communist girlfriend. I stopped working on TV for a year.”

“Brett Ridgeman: Politics like always. Lt. Calvert: Like cell phones, and just as annoying, politics are everywhere. Being branded a racist in today's public forum is like being accused of being a communist in the 50s, whether it’s a possibly racist remark made in a private phone call or the indelica…”

— S. Craig Zahler, Anthony Lurasetti, Vince Vaughn, imdb.com

“I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America!”

— Harry S Truman, amazon.com

“I am not worried about the Communist Party taking over the Government of the United States, but I am against a person, whose loyalty is not to the Government of the United States, holding a Government job. They are entirely different things. I am not worried about this country ever going Communist.…”

— Harry S Truman, bartleby.com