Socialist Label Quotes

The Bolsheviks called their system socialist so as to exploit the moral prestige of socialism. The West adopted the same usage for the opposite reason: to defame the feared libertarian ideals by associating them with the Bolshevik dungeon

I am not a socialist.

Sit down, you socialist

Everyone who knows me, they know that I am not a socialist.

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

Back in the early days of my political career, I was called Socialist Cindy. I just hate the nickname Cindy.

It used to be that I was known as 'the longest-serving independent in the history of the United States Congress,' which is true. Now I'm a 'self-professed democratic socialist.' Things change when you run for president.

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

The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a socialist, for example?' Nobody can really give you a good answer.