Rick Harrison Quotes

Capitalism is at least tolerable, which cannot be said of Socialism or Communism.

The reason socialism has failed around the world every time it's been tried is because people in socialist countries have looked at the United States and have said if they can have it that good, we can. It's a failed, flawed ideology, but if you ask socialists why it's always failed, it's because the United States has stood in the way.

The great dialectic in our time is not, as anciently and by some still supposed, between capital and labor; it is between economic enterprise and the state.

Socialism is the antithesis of opportunity and it's time to reject this failed and dangerous idea once and for all.

Capitalism is the fullest expression of anarchism, and anarchism is the fullest expression of capitalism.

A basic contradiction between socialism and the market economy does not exist.

In America, we don't, in daily discourse, use the words 'capitalism' or 'socialism.' They've been kind of nonexistent words, I would say, amongst the general public.

In government-directed economies, the collective takes priority over the individual. The moral ideal is equal results. That approach could not be further removed from the real world.

We can't keep flirting with communism and socialism.

Americans are sick of the idea of the government taking over everything and trying to run it. We don't know how to run a bank, a car company.

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies.

Socialism? We've had way too much of it already.

And I'm asking for your support because I want to defend America, as I've said before, from becoming a socialist nation.

I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.

I think anytime that you go to the extreme of any mode of economics, be it capitalism or communism, you have these feedback mechanisms that make the system turn in on itself.

To pursue a so-called Third Way is foolish. We had our experience with this in the 1960s when we looked for a socialism with a human face. It did not work, and we must be explicit that we are not aiming for a more efficient version of a system that has failed.

We recommend a planned public relations and publicity campaign to position the Republican party as the defender of individual liberties against the encroachment of socialism, paternalism, and government control.

What is the difference between Capitalism and Communism? Capitalism is the exploitation of man by man. Communism is the opposite.

The issue is always the same: the government or the market. There is no third solution.

When capitalism changes, so must socialism.

I don't like the spirit of socialism – I think freedom is the basis of everything.

Democrats must say loudly and clearly that we are not socialists.

I am not a socialist.

If you aren't talking to your kids about socialism, someone else is. So use car time, dinner time, tax preparation time, and time spent together at your work or small business to teach your child about the virtues of capitalism, the system of government that has lifted more people out of poverty.

We do not want socialism.