For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation… — Paul Krugman Copy Share Image
You can give your Social Security check to any organization, public or private, or to individuals. You can donate it to your… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two.… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, the insurance lobby recoils in horror at the prospect of automatic coverage (including, when it was first proposed, Social Security),… — Andrew Tobias Copy Share Image
They fight so much for two reasons. One is they don't want to be blamed for breaking the spending caps. And secondly,… — Robert Reischauer Copy Share Image
I care about our young people, and I wish them great success, because they are our Hope for the Future, and some… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there… — Judy Biggert Copy Share Image
When we think of entitlement programs, Social Security and Medicare immediately come to mind. But by any fair standard, the holy trinity… — Matthew Desmond Copy Share Image
For us, democracy is a question of human dignity. This includes the political liberties, the right to freely express our views, the… — Olof Palme Copy Share Image
Republicans are always saying we should privatize things like schools, prisons, social security - hey, how about we privatize privacy! Because if… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid… — Pat Toomey Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able… — Ken Mehlman Copy Share Image
These people are my mom and dad...the people I grew up with, my neighbors. They pay more effective tax than Governor Romney… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
If you're a poor worker - this is for new workers coming into the workplace - your benefits will increase at the… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
And let us not forget the Social Security system. Recent studies show that undocumented workers sustain the Social Security system with a… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
You know, we've got to be responsible about our debt. We don't want the United States to ever be a dead beat,… — Claire McCaskill Copy Share Image
Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with a progressive benefit formula, the program has… — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
Privatizing Social Security doesn't make sense, and it's out of step with the fundamental value of ensuring that after a life spent… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
People expect those in authority to take on big problems and to solve them. We had an opportunity to reform Social Security… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Mr Costeja González’s case started four years ago when he realised a Google search of his name threw up a link to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And because of these programs like Medicare, Medicare prescription drugs, Social Security, we now have the healthiest and wealthiest group of senior… — James T. Walsh Copy Share Image
Social Security, for example - I'm 43. I've paid into the system. You know what? That money has been stolen from me.… — Joe Miller Copy Share Image
Social Security, which transformed life for the elderly in this country, was 'socialist.' The concept of the 'minimum wage' was seen as… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I don't think the press has done a very good job dealing with government spending.The Defense Department with the $9,500 toilet seat,… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
We've overmedicated kids. Quite frankly, some of the overmedication of kids are because welfare moms want to get additional benefits, and if… — James Lankford Copy Share Image
I've developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was… — Jim DeMint Copy Share Image
One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
They're all tied together: taxes, Medicare, Social Security, and the debt. We've got to have a setting of priorities, and looking at… — John McCain Copy Share Image
When you pay social security taxes, you are in no way making provision for your own retirement. You are paying the pensions… — W. Allen Wallis Copy Share Image
Reforming Social Security to make it fully funded and independently held, that's compassionate because it allows people to control their own lives;… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
The Great Depression, they come out with the New Deal, black people didn't have access to those government stimulus packages. The New… — Eric Reid Copy Share Image
So you've got these regular, middle-class voters who don't hate the government as much as the Kochs do. They're Republicans, but they… — Jane Mayer Copy Share Image
We are confronting a situation in which the Administration, in my view, is once again manufacturing a crisis. There is no crisis… — Paul Sarbanes Copy Share Image
We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest… — Malcolm Wallop Copy Share Image
“Take Obama’s challenge, in January 2010, to the assembled CEOs at the Forum on Modernizing Government: “If you can book dinner on… — Aneesh Chopra Copy Share Image
In fact, for just about 1/6 of the cost of an Iraq War, we could have put the social security system on… — Joseph Stiglitz Copy Share Image
At a time when the United States is handing out tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, corporate jet owners, and… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them… — Luis Gutierrez Copy Share Image
You know, there was a recent poll which said that young people in the generation of the students here felt it was… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
