I've learned a long time ago if you don't have anything to hide, you shouldn't be pleading the Fifth, and most Americans get it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have obeyed the law. I have nothing to hide.
Really what it gets down to is that my idea of the American life, the American dream, whatever, is that I can do what I wish in the privacy of my own home. And as long as I'm not hurting anyone, no one has a right to know what I do. The main thing that I have to hide is that I don't have anything to hide.
The American people have been denied important information for their own protection.
If you are going to try and hide something, sooner or later people are going to find out.
I don't have anything to hide.
My attitude is that, if you have nothing to hide, why not show it?
Officers are taught to use all the tricks and lies that courts permit within the scope of the Fifth Amendment's shield against self-incrimination.
The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.
You do not have to incriminate yourself. But once you assert your innocence, and once you say you didn't do anything wrong, you can't then use the Fifth Amendment to say, 'I'm not answering questions.'
In every American there is an air of incorrigible innocence, which seems to conceal a diabolical cunning.