Social security Quotes · Page 5

Under the Bush plan, Social Security gets weaker, not stronger.

— Richard Neal

Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

— Rachel Maddow

I never voted to spend one penny of Social Security money.

— Ron Paul

From the time I was 8 until now, I've been working. My Social Security is looking solid.

— Jose Garces

If social security depresses savings rates, it is only because it is unfunded.

— Robert Kuttner

Large majorities of voters support taxing millionaires and protecting social security.

— Ari Melber

While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

— Chaka Fattah

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

— Bruce Braley

We need to take steps to strengthen and mend Social Security so that its promise of a secure retirement is just as…

— Herb Kohl

The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their…

— Mark Dayton

I vote Democrat because I think illegal aliens have a right to free health care, education, and Social Security benefits, and we…

— David Letterman

Republicans are manufacturing a Social Security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.

— Diane Watson

“The true source of economic security is self-reliance and economic freedom—Social Security is immoral because it subverts both.”

— Don Watkins

My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is…

— Jack Bowman

We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to…

— Robert Reich

Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion…

— Steven Rattner

“Generations of Americans built our Social Security system to provide basic and widespread protection against loss of earnings arising from the death,…

— David Cay Johnston

The country has large unfunded liabilities - social security, health care, and there will have to be some adjustments to these problems.…

— Joseph Stiglitz

My hope is that we can get a Republican-Democratic agreement on how we strengthen Social Security as well as looking at some…

— Barack Obama

The Roosevelt enactment of Social Security was a moral revolution in our country: We were assured that we would never reach the…

— Arthur Hertzberg

If Congress wants to mess with the retirement program, why don't we let them start by changing their retirement program, and not…

— Mike Huckabee

Social Security is a solemn promise to kupuna like my 88-year-old mother that they can rely on the retirement they've earned. While…

— Mazie Hirono

Stand up for our sick. Stand up for our veterans. Stand up for the elderly. Protect things like Social Security. Stop allowing…

— Richard Ojeda

Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program,…

— Bennie Thompson

Liberalism is unsustainable. When things go wrong in liberalism they pile more liberalism on top. Pretty good example of what's wrong with…

— Rush Limbaugh

“Two scholars who served on the staff of President Reagan’s 1982 National Commission on Social Security Reform explain that Social Security does…

— David Cay Johnston

“Does the flat tax work?...The flat tax works in a country that is a former Communist state, with no investment capital, and…

— T.R. Reid

“For some politics has become a battle ground that allows them to vent their frustrations, while at the same time hide behind…

— Captain Hank Bracker, The Exciting Story of Cuba

“Net wages: “It’s not what you make, but what you net” after paying the FIRE sector, basic utilities and taxes. The usual…

— Michael Hudson

We were giving advice for the single-worst idea to come forward from a group that's been rife with them, it would be…

— Barney Frank

“The address of the Tip O'Neill building is 10 Causeway Street. It may be torn down soon, because it is one of…

— Nicholson Baker

Today, I want to talk about Social Security and how all of us can ensure that one of the greatest achievements of…

— William J. Clinton

Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.

— Anonymous

It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

— Bill Delahunt

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

— Steve Israel

The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.

— Mitch Daniels

Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.

— Bernie Sanders

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

— Tony Snow

Social Security faces financial problems down the road because of demographics.

— John S. Tanner

[Donald Trump] is not going to cut Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.

— John Lewis