Tony Judt Quotes

Contemporary social democracy is what I believe is the right concept.

In America I think we need to move towards a social democracy, European-style basically, and I think that in Britain we do as well.

I think democratic socialism will ultimately prevail in this country because it makes an enormous amount of sense.

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law.

Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.

To his credit, Obama didn't just come to Washington to be someone. Like Reagan, he came to Washington to do something - to introduce a powerful social democratic stream into America's deeply and historically individualist polity.

In every capitalist economy there are anti-capitalist movements, activists, and even political parties; in a way, that there are no longer anti-democratic movements, activists, and parties.

If the Labour party goes back to reasserting its socialist and democratic beliefs, that's where I belong.

Democratic socialism means that we must create an economy that works for all, not just the very wealthy.

To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.

Political democracy cannot last unless there lies at the base of it social democracy. What does social democracy mean? It means a way of life which recognizes liberty, equality and fraternity as the principles of life.

'Democratic socialism' is awful as a slogan and catastrophic as a policy. And 'social democracy' - a term that better fits the belief of more ordinary liberals who want, say, Medicare for all - is a politically dying force. Democrats who aren't yet sick of all their losing should feel free to embrace them both.

Bernie Sanders is a socialist. I think Bernie Sanders is good candidate for president of Sweden. We don't want to be Sweden. We want to be the United States of America.

Socialism's not a word that I use. I say 'social democracy' because I don't think the government needs to own all the means of production.

It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

The 19th century was the age of Individualism; the 20th and 21st are the ages of Socialism.

You've got to respond to that and of course thinking through the role of a left party in the modern world, in the modern economy and society and having a policy response to that.

The more I support with my economic plans the building of a middle class, the quicker they're going to turn around and say, 'Hey, we want a bigger say in things.' So, I knew what I was getting into right at the beginning. It's the right thing to do.

If Obama has his way, the change that is coming is a new America: 'fair,' leveled and social democratic. Obama didn't get elected to warranty your muffler. He's here to warranty your life.

I am convinced that the path to a new, better and possible world is not capitalism, the path is socialism.

Socialist democracy is not, a luxury and its need is not limited to the most advanced industrial countries.

I've said in the primary race repeatedly that a Labour Party that I lead would be a true red Labour Party, be very clear about its social democratic roots and its social democratic agenda.

We are redefining and we are restating our socialism in terms of the scientific revolution.