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America didn’t become the richest country in the world by practicing socialism, or the strongest country by denigrating its governing institutions, or the most talent-filled country by stoking fear of immigrants.

Feb 17, 2016

Thomas Friedman, The New York Times
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But the law is not a breast that fills itself with milk. Nor are the lacteal veins of the law supplied with milk from a source outside the society. Nothing can enter the public treasury for the benefit of one citizen or one class unless another citizen or other classes have been forced to send it in. If every person draws from the treasury the amount that he has put in, it is true, then, that the law plunders nobody. But this procedure does nothing for the persons who have no money. It does not promote equality of income. The law can be an instrument of equalization only when it takes from some persons and gives to others, other persons. When the law does this, it is an instrument of plunder.

Sep 25, 2013

Ted Cruz, 21-Hour Speech on the Senate Floor
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This is new territory. There really isn't any precedent. You think Seattle has a pretty liberal electorate, but you haven't seen someone who calls themselves a socialist win.

Nov 13, 2013

Stuart Elway, Associated Press
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The fundamental differences between Marxian and traditional orthodox economics are, first, that the orthodox economists accept the capitalist system as part of the eternal order of Nature, while Marx regards it as a passing phase in the transition from the feudal economy of the past to the socialist economy of the future.

Jan 01, 1966

Joan Robinson, From her book titled An Essay on Marxian Economics - Second Edition
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People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You’ll have a sense of what a socialist is.

Nov 19, 2013

Barack Obama, Wall Street Journal CEO Summit
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There is this sense that the pyramid is flattening, whether it's in the world of business or in the world of politics. And that the, the top has less say, less influence over what the bottom wants.

Jan 02, 2011

Katty Kay, Meet the Press
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The most extreme types, like Murray Rothbard, are at least honest. They'd like to eliminate highway taxes because they force you to pay for a road you may never drive on. As an alternative, they suggest that if you and I want to get somewhere, we should build a road there and charge people tolls on it. Just try generalizing that. Such a society couldn't survive, and even if it could, it would be so full of terror and hate that any human being would prefer to live in hell.

Mar 22, 1998

Noam Chomsky, “The Common Good”
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