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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 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. "

" It's a very important thing to learn to talk to people you disagree with. "

" 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. "

" I came along and was a teenager in the Depression, and nobody had jobs. So I went out hitchhiking, when I met a man named Woody Guthrie. He was the single biggest part of my education. "

" Historically, I believe I was correct in refusing to answer their questions. "

" I have sung in hobo jungles, and I have sung for the Rockefellers, and I am proud that I have never refused to sing for anybody. "

" Songs won't save the planet, but neither will books or speeches. "

" 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 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 try to sing many different kinds of songs. If I sing a batch of humorous songs, I'll throw in a deadly serious song. Or if I'm singing too many serious songs, I'll throw in a ridiculous song, to mix it up. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" When you're facing an opponent over a broad front, you don't aim for the opponent's strong points, important though they may be. Pick a little outpost that you can capture and win. And then you find another place that you can capture and win it, and then you move slowly toward the big places. "

" I keep reminding people that an editorial in rhyme is not a song. A good song makes you laugh, it makes you cry, it makes you think. "

" You'd be surprised how many stupid mistakes I've made. I make stupid mistakes all the time, and some of them have been very big stupid mistakes. "

" If I've got a talent, it's for picking the right song at the right time for the right audience. And I can always get people to sing with me. "

" I feel that my whole life is a contribution. "

" I live in the country, so I get a fair amount of exercise. We heat our house with wood, so I split wood. We also live on a steep hill, and I have to rake and put in cross-stitches to keep the road from washing out when there's a big rain. "

" But I decline to say who has ever listened to them, who has written them, or other people who have sung them. "

" If there's something wrong, speak up! "

" I believe that my choosing my present course I do no dishonor to them, or to those who may come after me. "

" My mother was a very good violinist; my father was a musicologist and spent most of his life in academia. "

" According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something, I'm listening to God. "

" I fought for peace in the fifties. "

" Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get if you don't. "

" I'm still a communist in the sense that I don't believe the world will survive with the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer - I think that the pressures will get so tremendous that the social contract will just come apart. "

" Again, I say I will be glad to tell what songs I have ever sung, because singing is my business. "

" 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. "

" Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live. "

" I want to turn the clock back to when people lived in small villages and took care of each other. "