Most conservatives just want to turn back the clock to a time before the income tax - 100 years or so. I would like to turn the clock back thousands of years to a time when people lived in small communities and took care of each other.

It was only through the years that I realized what an absolutely extraordinarily thoughtful person Dr. King was.

It's a terrible thing being a patriarch. I don't even have a gray beard. But people keep calling me up for advice.

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life.

Parents are the hardest-working members of the population. But they do it for the highest wages. Kisses.

If you love this land of the free, bring them home, bring them home, Bring them back from overseas.

He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio programs. He persuaded CBS to dedicate "The School of the Air" for one year to American folk music. He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. Then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo.