Social Security right now is a collectivist system…Autopilot will bring more government, more collectivism, [and] more centralized government if we do not succeed in switching these programs…from a third party or socialist system.

Barack Obama calls it spreading the wealth. Joe Biden calls higher taxes patriotic. But Joe the Plumber and Ed the Dairyman, I believe they think it sounds more like socialism. Friends, now is no time to experiment with socialism.

[Obama] believes in redistributing wealth, not in policies that help us all make more of it. Joe [the Plumber], in his plainspoken way, said this sounded a lot like socialism. And a lot of Americans are thinking along those same lines…

At least in Europe, the socialist leaders who so admire my opponent are upfront about their objectives.

It’s not that Barack Obama is a socialist, but he subscribes to socialist tenets.

[Obama] is left of Teddy Kennedy. With all due respect, the man is a socialist.

This campaign in the next couple of weeks is about one thing. It’s a referendum on socialism.

First it was the stimulus, then the omnibus and now the budget. It’s all a down payment on a new American socialist experiment.

Part of what we're trying to do in [his book, “Saving Freedom: We Can Stop America's Slide Into Socialism”] is just show that where we are, we're about where Germany was before World War II where they became a social democracy. You still had votes but the votes were just power grabs like you see in Iran, and other places in South America, like Chavez is running down in Venezuela…[When] immigrants get here, they're worried, because they see it happening here.

As the father of four children, I am absolutely appalled that taxpayer dollars are being used to spread President Obama’s socialist ideology.

This is an administration hell bent on taking America towards a socialist country. And we ought not be afraid to say that because that's what it is.

I said, well, I don't know if I can hold hands and walk down the road to socialism…This [bill] endangers our heritage.

It’s the road toward socialism, government intervention in the market in a big way. What’s the end game here and can the American people afford it. I think the answer is obviously not.

We’re going down a road where it’s unchartered. We’re going down a road to disaster…There’s got to be some other way better than what we’re doing. Not the socialist way, but to try and get our free market working again.

The Democrats are indeed marching America toward European-style socialism, and I will continue to criticize their dangerous policies in that regard.

I know [Obama is a socialist]…[I]n college he leaned to Marxist tendencies and is linked to Marxist professors. He joined Marxists clubs. And look at who he’s put in his administration, they’re devout socialists. 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.

It is an often-remarked-upon irony that at a time when Europe is moving away from socialism and its many failures, President Obama is moving us toward that direction.

[D]uring the next two to three weeks this Congress will make a decision about whether we move towards European socialism or try to tackle this healthcare issue the old tried-and-true American way.

Tax expenditures are not tax cuts. Tax expenditures are socialism and corporate welfare.

I think that when President Obama was first elected, a lot of Republicans in Washington didn’t know what they were dealing with, because most people in ordinary life don’t run into honest-to-God socialists…

[H]e has pushed relentlessly for European-style socialism in this country, and I use that word in its literal sense…Socialism is government ownership or control of the means of production or distribution. And, in my judgment, that has been the unified theme of this administration.

[T]his is a [presidential] election…about what path we take this country on - whether we continue down this path of European-style Socialism.

Obamacare is just part of a vision for the forced sharing of American assets…[this] is a socialist-communist vision.

There’s a palpable fear among Kansans all across the state that the America that we love and cherish will not be the same America for our kids and grandkids…[W]e have to change course because our country is headed for national socialism.

The Obama presidency has been built on the theme of class warfare…

Socialism (or “progressivism,” which is the term of preference for the left) is now the engine that drives the policies of the Democratic agenda.

I’m running [for president] because I want to stop President Obama and Secretary Clinton from turning the American dream into the European nightmare. We are on the path towards socialism. It’s not too late, but the hour is late.

And let's dispel once and for all with this fiction that Barack Obama doesn't know what he's doing. He knows exactly what he's doing. Barack Obama is undertaking a systematic effort to change this country.