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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Republicans drove us into debt with two wars and the Bush tax cuts. Now they want to pay for that debt with… — Bernie Sanders Copy Share Image
I think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by whipping up… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas… — John Shadegg 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
Last month, 80,000 Americans signed on to new jobs, but 85,000 Americas signed on for Social Security disability checks. Most of these… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
You know, Floridians, we've paid into Social Security. Like a lot of other government programs, we sent money to D.C. We expect… — Rick Scott Copy Share Image
I look back to the Great Depression, and what Roosevelt was able to do in very difficult times, to get Social Security… — Chris Matthews Copy Share Image
Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of… — Pete Sessions Copy Share Image
