“The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed; socialism doesn't work.”

— Rand Paul

As quoted in Kentucky Tonight (16 June 1998), KET.
1990s

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“The Soviet Union was the largest, longest, and most ambitious effort to implement socialism in human history. It was also an evil, totalitarian slave state that survived only by militarizing all of society and sustaining a permanent state of emergency for seven decades. As soon as it began to relax, it collapsed. If socialism failed in its biggest and most intensive effort, there is no strong reason to believe it will succeed elsewhere.”

Paul D. Miller (academic) American academic

Why Socialism Is Bad (2018)

“I failed to communicate, that's why I chose to leave”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

“There is a difference between failing and failure. Failing is trying something that you learn doesn't work. Failure is throwing in the towel and giving up.”

Jay Samit (1961) American businessman

Source: Disrupt You! (2015), p. 12

“Why were the Europeans bothered about the Soviet Union at all? It was nothing to do with us. China had nothing to do with us. Why were we not building, without reference to the Soviet Union, a good society in our own countries? But no, we were all — in one way or another — obsessed with the bloody Soviet Union, which was a disaster. What people were supporting was failure. And continually justifying it.”

Doris Lessing (1919–2013) British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer and short story writer

Salon interview (1997)

“I don't fail. I succeed at finding what doesn't work.”

Christopher Titus (1964) actor, writer, podcaster

The Fifth-Annual End-of-the-World Tour (2007)

“There was nothing remotely like socialism in the Soviet Union…”

Noam Chomsky (1928) american linguist, philosopher and activist

Speech on “Lenin, Trotsky and Socialism and the Soviet Union”, (March 15, 1989) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yQsceZ9skQI
Quotes 1960s-1980s, 1980s
Context: There was nothing remotely like socialism in the Soviet Union… [Lenin] didn’t believe that it was possible to have socialism in the Soviet Union… He kept the view that the Soviet revolution was a holding action, they just kind of hold things in place, until the real revolution took place in Germany… That, presumably, gave some sort of justification for eliminating the socialist institutions.

“After the Soviet Union turned into many, many little non-Soviet countries... it was crazy. It was like a lot of pop-ups on Firefox, and you try to click them away, but it doesn't work!”

Johannes Grenzfurthner (1975) Austrian artist, writer, curator, and theatre and film director

73rd Communique of the CPSUZoeD https://www.derstandard.at/jetzt/livebericht/2000116238563/
Quotes as Nikita P. Chrusov

“(Men without ambition are boring)
And that attitude, mistress, is why the females of your kind continue to struggle for equality. And why they continue to fail.”

Richelle Mead (1976) American writer

Source: Storm Born

“Why are students learning business from business professors whose businesses failed?”

Christian Canlubo (2002) Filipino Internet Entrepreneur

Christian Canlubo on his twitter https://twitter.com/canlubochris account.

Source: https://twitter.com/canlubochris/status/1236684517823283200 | Christian Canlubo personal Twitter account

“The fundamental reason why Medicare is failing is why the Soviet Union failed; socialism doesn't work.”

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