Bed Quote by Michael Foot

I doubted that there were Communists hiding behind every corporation desk and director's chair.

— Gloria Swanson

I was studying American politicians who were searching - allegedly - for American communists because it would put them on the front pages of…

— Robert Vaughn

Smearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

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…

— Helen Gahagan Douglas

The Secret Service hates to complain about something. They're secret by nature. They're not boastful; they don't like to be in the limelight. And…

— Jeh Johnson

If Democrats insist on looking for skeletons in the closet, they should take a long look at themselves. They've hidden more than their fair…

— Matt Gaetz

“So I’m in the American Secret Service? Damn.” “It was all reported in the press the next day.”

— Douglas Preston

...also took for granted that secret services were the only real measure of a nations political health, the only real expression of its subconscious.

— John le Carre

When I cleared out Moscow apartment after stepping down as president, they found all kinds of wiring in the walls. It turned out that…

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“They’d all been carefully screened by the F.B.I., so probably not more than half a dozen were active members of the Communist Party.”

— Arthur C. Clarke

The American Communist Party was notoriously infiltrated by informers, some working for the FBI, some for capitalist employers. At one time it used to…

— Helen Lawrenson

Perhaps Communists had wormed their way so deeply into our government on both the working and planning levels that they were able to exercise…

— Mark W. Clark