Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 250 |
| AUTHOR: | Harry S. Truman (1884–1972) |
| QUOTATION: | People are very much wrought up about the Communist bugaboo. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | President That same day, in response to a question at his press conference, Truman said, “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.”—Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman, 1947, p. 191. |
| SUBJECTS: | Communism |