Quotes About Government

I'm more socialist certainly than New Labour - I'm very old Labour, really.

I don't want to raise a family in a country run by left-wing socialists.

Why do I hate Obamacare? Because it is a blast against freedom. It is a socialist program which will not work. It hasn't worked anywhere in the world. It will be repealed.

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

So far I go with the Socialists as to think it a pretty general rule that, where monopoly is necessary, it is better in public hands.

The extreme socialists desire to run every nation as a single business concern.

Moammar Gaddafi, who has called himself the 'Guide of the First of September Great Revolution of the Socialist People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya,' should go down in history with the Emperor Bokassa and Idi Amin as a grotesque reminder of why people have the right to change their government.

The citizen parties, by an absolute majority, elected a National Socialist Government.

We are all socialists now, it seems. John McCain, David Cameron and Gordon Brown attack bankers' irresponsible behaviour and salaries, and call for state intervention in the financial markets. But these calls will not get them elected or re-elected if they are addressed only to the banking sector.

I think most people would love for us to be a socialist society.

I don't believe this nation will elect a socialist.

You go to your public library, or you call your fire department or police department, what do you think you are calling? These are socialist institutions.

Communism is a way of thinking. Socialism is wimpy communism. When you don't have the courage to become a communist, you become a socialist.

France has had socialist presidents on and off since the 1920s, and it remains a free country. Socialists have ruled in many South American countries without ushering in disaster.

And I don't want my assets to be stuck inside a banana republic in the midst of a huge socialist experiment.

People have to take socialism and anyone running on a socialist platform incredibly seriously.

Democracy in a socialist country is freedom in chains.

'Socialize' means we turn more of our personal powers over to Big Brother, not free enterprise.

One of the reasons that fascism ascended to power so quickly was that it was considered socially elegant to support this new way of government.

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Why do we have U.S. attorneys? Because we need a mechanism to make sure people obey the laws that we pass, for societal reasons.

Just as a doctor is important for saving lives, every IAS officer is important for societal development; he's like a messenger sent by God to serve the public.

The primary problem in many modernizing societies is not liberty but the creation of a legitimate public order. Men may, of course, have order without liberty, but they cannot have liberty without order.

Socialism ruins societies because it misunderstands human nature.