Gloria Swanson Quotes

Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.

The crusade against Communism was even more imaginary than the specter of Communism.

Our fear of communism led us to embrace any dictator that joined us in that fear.

People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.

I am not worried about this country ever going Communist. We have too much sense for that

Having emigrated to the United States as a small boy from the Soviet Union, I am instinctively suspicious of socialism and inveterately opposed to communism.

All of these charges by McCarthy were a way of getting the Democrats out of power. The Democrats had controlled the government for 20 years, and the New Deal had helped a lot of people. So Republicans turned instead to saying that the Democrats were soft on communism, which was ridiculous.

Such pip-squeaks as Nixon and McCarthy are trying to get us so frightened of Communism that we'll be afraid to turn out the lights at night.

I'm a Red-baiter; I'm a witch-hunter if the witches are Communists.

The Liberty League was laughed out of existence by New Yorker cartoonists, who depicted its members looking out over Fifth Avenue and snorting that doomsday was here and Josef Stalin lurked in the bushes.

The difference between eastern Europe and the United States is that the United States still has a Communist party.

Our friends on the left never met an anti-Communist they liked.

At age 13 I knew that communists were bad people and we had to get rid of them…Growing up before we were concerned about the role of government, or policy we had to get rid of the communists.

My job is to stop Britain going red.

Anybody who is against that obviously must be a communist.

So long as I'm president, communism will not thrive here.

I think Nixon says a lot about those times. It was possibly hard, in the '90s and early 2000s to understand the grip of fear that communism had on the country in the 1950s and 1960s - a fear Nixon rode like a endless great wave on the Pacific to high office. I'm sure, though there's no evidence of it, one of the things that rankled him down deep was that it was called McCarthyism and not Nixonism.

It evolved from my experience in the fifties, growing up during the McCarthy era, and hearing a lot of assumptions that America was wonderful and Communism was terrible.

You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that.

I came into the Agency with a set of ideas and attitudes that were quite typical of people coming into the Agency at that time. You could call it liberal anti-communism.

First of all, let it be remembered that I speak as an ex-Communist and one who has not testified before Congressional Committees, nor written works on the Communist conspiracy.

There was a very serious communist strain among American intellectuals before the war. America was a more tolerant place in those days, and Communists were not treated as pariahs. That ended with the McCarthy era.

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.

Communists will infiltrate the highest offices of government in the US until the president is a Communist, unknown to the rest of us.

American capitalism has helped finance the communist takeover of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this