Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I rise today in strong support of this resolution condemning socialism. I have seen the victims of socialism firsthand. Many of those victims have found refuge in Nebraska. Vietnamese is the third most spoken language in Nebraska due to immigration in the 1970s, and members of the Falun Gong have found freedom from religious persecution by the Chinese Communist Party in our great State. History shows us that when socialism is tried, it leads to three things: poverty, devastation, and ultimately communism. As Vladimir Lenin once said, ``The goal of socialism is communism.'' Socialist regimes continue to commit atrocities around the world. In North Korea, there are an estimated 180,000 prisoners today. Many of them are subjected to torture and extreme manual labor. In Venezuela, police and security forces killed more than 19,000 people between 2016 and 2019 for ``resisting authority.'' In Cuba, journalists, bloggers, and artists are routinely jailed for speaking against the regime. The list goes on and on. Socialism is the enemy, not just to free enterprise, but to human rights. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to support this resolution.”