Quotes About Politics

I am angry that the Democrats don't have the ability to explain to Republicans that we should be able to feed people in this country, and that is not socialism.

Obamanomics, his imposition of European-style socialism, is not working for African-Americans. It is not working for Latinos and African-Americans.

People focus on the labels when they are not sure what they mean. What people call socialism these days is Eisenhower Republicanism!

I think of myself as a democratic capitalist, although I think the word 'socialism' loses its meaning every time that it is used to describe literally any policy left of far right by the current Republicans.

The calls for socialism on the left get louder and louder, and they don't stop.

Is socialism still for me if I'm a millennial millionaire?

The promise of socialism is a lie.

Socialism most always leads to a failure of democracy because the economic system ultimately cannot provide for its people.

If anyone says that American socialism isn't possible, point them toward the bowling shoe.

Republicans paint everything that Democrats have been for as socialism, too far to the left, as extreme, and it didn't matter how moderated it was; it didn't matter that Obamacare started out as a compromise. You might as well say what you're actually for and show what you really are.

Socialism doesn't work. A big government doesn't work.

Seriously, you can't talk socialism in America without going to the OG, Sen. Bernie Sanders.

Throughout the west, the rise of populism has shaken establishments, with politicians and commentators asking why there has been a resurgent interest in socialism, and a growth of the far right on the opposite side.

You don't want communism. You don't want this socialism. This is what destroys countries and lives.

For too long, for way too long the Republican party has just been the party of 'no' that has always conceded things. They have let God out of our schools, they have let socialism creep into our country.

I am a socialist, and everyone knows it.

We are not socialists, we are Peronists. We are pragmatic.

Socialist ideology is making France go to pot, and the French language with it.

Honesty compels me to say that I am not a socialist. But so what?

I am a 'champagne socialist,' and I'm proud of it.

I would remind you the lesser of two socialists is still a socialist.

I was an extreme leftist-anarchist. Now, I guess I'm a European socialist who's locked into American citizenship, without complaint.

When I was in college, I was always saying I was a socialist.

The NAACP was not a black-run, black-originated organization. It was run by 21 white, socialist, atheist, Marxist Democrats. It was the antithesis of Rev. Martin Luther King Sr.'s community at that time, which was capitalist, Christian, very pro-life, and pro-America.