Carly Fiorina Quotes

If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

Socialism requires that government becomes your god.

Socialism, in the traditional sense, meant government ownership and operation of the means of production. Outside of North Korea and a couple of other spots, no one in the world today would define socialism that way. That will never come back.

Capitalism means free enterprise, sovereignty of the consumers in economic matters, and sovereignty of the voters in political matters. Socialism means full government control of every sphere of the individuals life and the unrestricted supremacy of the government in its capacity as central board of production management.

All socialism involves slavery.

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.

There would be but one article in the constitution of a State Socialistic country: “The right of the majority is absolute.”

The state knows best how to protect resources.

Socialism is the phantastic younger brother of despotism, which it wants to inherit. Socialism wants to have the fullness of state force which before only existed in despotism. ... However, it goes further than anything in the past because it aims at the formal destruction of the individual ... who ... can be used to improve communities by an expedient organ of government.

A little government involvement is just as dangerous as a lot - because the first leads inevitably to the second.

The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn't work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good.

The term "Socialism" becomes a common label for the various theories of attack upon the principle of property, the various policies of communal control at the expense of the family and individual freedom.

What I experienced in Cuba, I have become a student of what, how communism operates.

Of course, socialism is just evil now. It's completely discredited supposedly by the collapse of the Soviet Union, but I can't help noticing that my grandchildren are heavily in hock to Communist China now which is evidently a whole lot better at business than we are.

[I]n communism, you'd threaten a dog into compliance, while in capitalism, obedience is obtained through bribes.

The problem with socialism is that sooner or later you run out of everyone else's money.

There is simply no other choice than this: either to abstain from interference in the free play of the market, or to delegate the entire management of production and distribution to the government. Either capitalism or socialism: there exists no middle way.

The American people will never knowingly adopt socialism. But, under the name of 'liberalism,' they will adopt every fragment of the socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.

The argument for collectivism is simple; free market is not.

There isn't much in the way of pure communist spirit, because the whole nation seems to be engaged in capitalistic enterprises. Much of the country still operates under government control.

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

Socialism is when government's taking care of you, you send all your money to the government, the government decides how to spend it instead of letting the people spend it and make all those decisions.

Most nanny-state initiatives begin on a local level.

History has shown that Big Government expands quickest in the immediate aftermath of a crisis - real or manufactured.

The statists want to control the economy.