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Can anything be more Un-American than the Un-American committee? -- Burt Lancaster
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America! -- Harry S Truman
I don't care if you're Republican or a Democrat or a Liberal, getting crucified for the way you think or believe, obviously if it's not hurting anyone, it's just Un-American. -- Angie Harmon
I was in federal prison in West Virginia for three months for contempt of Congress for a refusing to comply with a request of a Congressional committee of Congress, the House Un-American Activities Committee. -- Howard Fast
On the House Un-American Activities Committee: They'll nail anyone who ever scratched his ass during the National Anthem. -- Humphrey Bogart
I smoke really good cigars, I don't smoke Cuban cigars. I would never do anything as Un-American as smoke a decent cigar. -- Ron White
Un-American activity cannot be prevented or routed out by employing un-American methods; to preserve freedom we must use the tools that freedom provides. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
I've said many a time that I think the Un-American Activities Committee in the House of Representatives was the most un-American thing in America! -- Harry S Truman
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Solitude is un-American. -- Erica Jong
A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know. -- George Wald
Leaving American disaster victims to languish is morally reprehensible and un-American. -- Cedric Richmond
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.' -- Garrison Keillor
I don't care if you're a Republican or a Democrat, there is something profoundly un-American about using the brute force of government to bully someone. -- Rand Paul
The only people I've ever heard saying that disagreeing with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld is un-American or treasonous are people who disagree with Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld. -- Craig Bruce
Putting pressure on grand juries to indict in my view is un-American. A grand jury should be allowed to be fair and impartial. They shouldn't have people yelling and screaming. -- Rudy Giuliani
Much as I disliked the un-American idea of marrying a lady with a dowry, I must admit that little Mrs. Godfrey's little private income put everything in a faintly different light. -- Preston Sturges
The Iraq War. No one took to the streets over it. It certainly would have been appropriate. If anybody even hinted we should... you were called un-American and not supporting the troops. -- Hank Azaria
Whether we start with a provisional status and legal permanent residence... or we set up some other way to assimilate legally, you can't ever put in something that says, 'You can never become a citizen.' That's un-American. -- Jeff Denham
Conservatives may worship Adam Smith's 'invisible hand,' but for Obama, the helping hand comes in large measure from the public, not the private sector. To call this 'socialism' is to do violence to the word and to the concept. To call it 'un-American' is a smear. -- Jeff Greenfield
I have been called many things in my life, but if there has been but one constant, one barb, one arrow flung my way time after time, it is the accusation that I am, in essence, nothing more than an escapist. Apparently this is bad, suspect, possibly even un-American. -- J. Maarten Troost
Americans are free to choose everything from what they eat, drive and watch on TV to the President of the United States. Yet, when it comes to allowing Americans to choose the health insurance that works best for them and their family, the freedom to choose suddenly becomes un-American. -- Ron Wyden
I don't know anything more piggish - I don't know anything more un-American than saying, 'Oh, I'm worried about my own little handout or my own little program or my own little economy and we'll kick this can down the road and let some future generation deal with it.' -- Todd Rokita
For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers. -- Abraham Verghese
Solitude is considered un-American. -- Erica Jong
Nature is very un-American. Nature never hurries. -- William George Jordan
Bankruptcy as a solution in kind of un-American. -- Thomas W. Horton
Everyone likes pussy. It's un-American not to like pussy. -- Sam Zell
The most un-American thing you can do is to stifle dissent -- Utah Phillips
To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American. -- Theodore Roosevelt
I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that. -- Garrison Keillor
[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
A kitchen without an ironing board? Are you kidding? It's un-American. It's like Simon without Garfunkel. -- Erma Bombeck
Donald Trump is appealing to the basest, the most selfish and the most literally un-American of instincts. -- Mark Shields
All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American. -- Theodore Roosevelt
The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American? -- Cullen Hightower
There was tremendous animus to President [Barack] Obama. Many of people said he was un-American, not a Christian and worse. -- Mara Liasson
American Medical Association [AMA] was strongly opposed to any scheme for group practice and to health insurance ... because they are un-American. -- Morris Fishbein
Our federal tax system is, in short, utterly impossible, utterly unjust and completely counterproductive . . . [It] reeks with injustice, and is fundamentally un-American -- Ronald Reagan
Look, the FBI has the tools necessary un-American activities in our country. It goes on, we shouldn't even be talking about it. -- Jeb Bush
It was practically un-American to not set goals and then do everything you could, everything, to reach them. Quitting-it was a dirty word... -- Deb Caletti
The strongest argument for the un-materialistic character of American life is that we tolerate conditions that are, from a materialistic point of view, intolerable. -- Mary McCarthy
The charges are false and despicable. I have not received a fair hearing. This is un-American. All the lawyering will provoke an untoward outcome. -- Catherine Crier
I feel like I am not an American in the eyes of my government because of their religious beliefs. I think that is un-American. -- Michael Newdow
I know jazz is completely un-American. But the reason why America doesn't like it is because it's not funny. We [americans] have made jazz funny. -- Paul Provenza
Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us. -- William O. Douglas
I feel that America is essentially against the artist, that the enemy of America is the artist, because he stands for individuality and creativeness, and that's un-American somehow. -- Henry Miller
Isadore [Duncan], who had an un-American genius for art, for organizing love, maternity, politics and pedagogy on a great personal scale, had also an un-American genius for grandeur. -- Janet Flanner
One of the first things every press secretary assures you is, the boss has a wonderful sense of humor, because not to have a sense of humor is considered flagrantly un-American. -- Mark Shields
The soldier does not wish to appear a coward, disloyal, or un-American. The situation has been so defined that he can see himself as patriotic, courageous, and manly only through compliance. -- Stanley Milgram
There is something very quiet and reserved and pessimistic about Obama's temperament that is deeply un-American. There are those people who claim, "Oh, he wasn't born here" - all that is nonsense. -- Jess Row
There is nothing more American than raising your voice in protest, and there is nothing more un-American than a government that attempts to hit the mute button when it doesn't like what it hears. -- Witold Walczak
It's all very Italian (and decidedly un-American): to insist that doing the right thing is the most pleasurable thing, and that the act of consumption might be an act of addition rather than subtraction. -- Michael Pollan
Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say, 'Trust me,' they're actually being very un-American. -- David Duchovny

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