Alger Hiss

“So far as I am concerned, I have nothing to hide.”

“My own view is that this is a silly, trivial, and irrelevant topic.”

“I am not and never have been a member of the Communist party.”

“Until the day I die, I shall wonder how Whittaker Chambers got into my house to use my typewriter.”

“In the future, the nation's political leaders will be tested by whether they see possibilities and investigate them instead of saying, 'Get over it.'”

“I would be glad to help the Committee in any way I can, but I will not be a party to a lie.”

“The charges are false.”

“The case against me was a frame-up.”

“It is a tragedy that we have to live in a time when words are twisted out of their meaning and a man's reputation can be destroyed by a whisper.”

“I hope you will not think I am being melodramatic when I say that my life, and that of my family, has been ruined by this charge.”