Picket Quotes

While being interviewed on "Today" (1952) by Katie Couric in July 2002: "Don`t be afraid of liberals. Some of them are my best friends. You can call us names, you can picket us but you cannot take our flag. We are as proud of America as anyone else".

"I think there is something about the American dream, the sort of Disneyesque dream, if you will, of the beautifully trimmed front lawn, the white picket fence, mom and dad and their happy children, God-fearing and doing good whenever they can, and the flip side of it, the kind of anger and the sense of outrage that comes from discovering that that`s not the truth of the matter, that gives American horror films, in some ways, kind of an additional rage."

I wanted to be a marine biologist, then I wanted to be a stewardess. Then I met this lady that was really neat, and she cut my hair once; so then I wanted to cut hair! But by far my biggest dream when I was young was to have the perfect home and the picket fence, and babies crawling around, and I`d be cooking food in the kitchen.

Instead of setting up picket lines, they should be sending that final offer out for a vote, ... Let the people decide.

You want to shut up every Negro who has the courage to stand up and fight for the rights of his people, for the rights of workers, and I have been on many a picket line for the steelworkers too.

One of my earliest memories is of my father carrying me in one arm with a picket sign in the other.

Any time someone carries a picket sign in front of the White House, that is the First Amendment in action.

If you don`t like the President, it costs you 90 bucks to fly to Washington to picket. If you don`t like the Governor, it costs you 60 bucks to fly to Albany to picket. If you don`t like me, 90 cents.