Robert Kiyosaki Quotes

It's a tough one for me, politics. I grew up in a house where my father is a Christian book salesman and a Tory, and my mum's a social worker. So I can always see the benefits of both arguments.

Now a great debate has been born. The thesis is Democratic Socialism. The antithesis is free-market capitalism. The Obama Democrats have posed the challenge. It is now up to the Republicans to pick it up and fight along these lines.

I think you hear, at least as an undertone, and it's going to grow louder, is that we believe that capitalism is the mantra of the day and anything that creeps towards socialism is a problem.

American capitalism has helped finance the communist takeover of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this

I don’t see why we have to let a country go Marxist just because its people are irresponsible.

Honesty compels me to say that I am not a socialist. But so what?

I certainly did not know what the word 'socialism' meant growing up, because I was brought up in a very nonpolitical family. My brother was somewhat active, but my parents were not.

The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.

I think that the future belongs to democracy, but not to capitalism, because they are opposite camps.

America has to stand up and decide if we want to be a socialist nation or if we're going to be a free nation.

India is not a capitalist nation and should never be a capitalist nation.

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.

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

All the politics of the post-war period was about the clash between the Soviet Union and America, and virtually all issues ended up being subordinated to that. Now, the question is, what is the most a socialist can achieve in a global economy?

Most people in this country believe that the American Communist Party and its dupes are the chief internal enemy of our economic system and our form of government. This is a serious mistake.

From a systematic standpoint, I think that capitalism is the best system. I can spend a lot of time explaining why I like communism, but it is actually not a good solution. Nor is socialism. So, capitalism is the right model.

Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.

I'm not a communist, of course. But I do think that everything is down to economics. Capitalism doesn't change.

Labour was always aligned with the U.S. during the Cold War, but the ignominious implosion of communism reinforced the belief that no alternative to the prevailing common sense was possible.

Capitalism is always evaluated against dreams. Utopia is a dream. It doesn't exist.

There are words bandied about that are being misused - words like 'socialism,' words like 'communism,' words like 'fascism.'

I didn't do anything differently than what my father was doing. It's a really hard family to rebel in. I could have become an accountant. Or I could have become a Republican.

When I was a sophomore at USC, I was a socialist, pretty much to the left. But not when I left the university. I quickly got wise. I'd read about what had happened to Russia in 1917 when the Communists took over.

A market can be a capitalist or a socialist one, but it is still a market.

The difference between eastern Europe and the United States is that the United States still has a Communist party.