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A socialist is someone who wants politicians to decide who gets what; a "democratic socialist" wants the politicians to at least stand for election first.

— Glenn Reynolds Socialism not as hot as its spokesman (2016)

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I'd like to live in a world in which happily married gay people have closets full of assault weapons to protect their pot.

Think of the press as a psychological warfare operation aimed at normal Americans and you won’t go far wrong.

As the saying goes, a government that robs Peter to pay Paul can count on getting Paul’s vote.

[W]e have, in many ways, the worst political class in our country's history.

Given the failure of the two party establishments, it’s not entirely surprising that young people are looking elsewhere. Their votes are up for grabs, for those who are willing and able to offer something different. For the sake of the country, let’s hope those votes are won by people who are able to offer something different, and constructive, at the same time.

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Democracy is the wholesome and pure air without which a socialist public organization cannot live a full-blooded life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children.

Martin Luther King Jr.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

Winston Churchill

In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated.

George Orwell

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