Kindlehighlight Quote by Benjamin Balint

Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would…

— Ronald Reagan

A new poll out taken by a Republican group that shows most Democrats prefer socialism to capitalism. Those terms don't mean what they did…

— Chris Matthews

You must have, if socialism was to succeed, a socialism with lots of democratic elements in it.

— Stefan Heym

I'm not that much of a socialist compared to Eisenhower.

— Bernie Sanders

Whether or not you agree with Bernie Sanders' version of socialism, it is enormously significant that, for the first time in US history, a…

— Kshama Sawant

My father was an ardent socialist for many years.

— Leon Askin

If we were to make no better use of victory than to countenance existing trends in this direction, only too visible before 1939, we…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

'Socialist' is the nastiest thing you can say about an American politician in some quarters.

— Jay McInerney

Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.

— John Steinbeck

Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.

— P. J. O'Rourke

In our own times, a coherent socialist movement is nowhere to be found in the United States. Americans are more likely to speak of…

— Elena Kagan

Americans have not had a presidential choice since 1932. Roosevelt was our man; every president since Roosevelt has been our man.

— Harold Wallace Rosenthal