The road from legitimate suspicion to rampant paranoia is very much shorter than we think. – Capt. Jean-Luc Picard Star Trek: The Next Generation, ‘The Drumhead’.
There’s a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something. – Billy Joel
The ’50s and the ’70s are sort of similar in that they’re both times of major paranoia in America. – Noah Hawley
