“People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo.”

“Communists must at all times stand up for the truth, because truth is in the interests of the people and Communists must be ready at all times to correct their mistakes, because mistakes are against the interests of the people.”

“They (the Greens) are a home for people who in the 1950s would have joined the Communist Party. They are watermelons many of them - green on the outside and very, very, very red on the inside.”

“People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.”

“General fiction is pretty much about ways that people get into problems and screw their lives up. Science fiction is about everything else.”

“When people are standing up for our present rotten system, they are being worse than Communists, it seems to me.”

“Resting beneath the mighty Communist regime is a civil society that remains weak. It doesn't have much courage and is not very sophisticated. As a civil society it is still in a nascent stage, and this is why we mus not expect it, in the near term, to produce a political organization that might replace the Communist regime.”

“You see few people here in America who really care very much about living a Christian life in a democratic world.”

“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. We have too much sense for that.”

“The idea of building communist society exclusively with the hands of the Communists is childish, absolutely childish. We communists are but a drop in the ocean, a drop in the ocean of the people.”