Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme. — Diane Watson Copy Share Image
“The most capricious modern entitlement is not just Social Security but to self-esteem.” — George will Copy Share Image
We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century. — Mitch McConnell Copy Share Image
Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me. — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets. — Max Baucus Copy Share Image
We must work hard to ensure that Social Security remains solvent for future generations. — Joe Sestak Copy Share Image
The real Social Security crisis is that the government does not have the money to redeem its IOUs. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing. — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension… — Mark Skousen Copy Share Image
Social Security may be the most beloved of all the government's programs, partly because it requires so little thinking. You pay taxes… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
How does one leave Social Security and Medicare untouched, grow defense by more than $50 billion, slash taxes, launch a $1 trillion… — Pat Buchanan Copy Share Image
“One change we believe should be made is increasing the maximum amount of wages on which Social Security’s contributions are assessed. Contributions… — David Cay Johnston Copy Share Image
No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about… — Joe Biden Copy Share Image
The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably… — Gary Johnson Copy Share Image
Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have… — Hank Johnson Copy Share Image
Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt. — Addison Wiggin Copy Share Image
What man could afford to pay for all the things a wife does, when she's a cook, a mistress, a chauffeur, a… — Betty Ford Copy Share Image
I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud… — Jim Clyburn Copy Share Image
Rather than squander the surplus on tax breaks for the rich, we should add a prescription drug benefit to the Medicare program,… — Bennie Thompson Copy Share Image
Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the… — James Surowiecki Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
“Still later, I read Ira Katznelson’s history of discrimination, When Affirmative Action Was White, which argued that similar exclusions applied to other… — Ta-Nehisi Coates Copy Share Image
We have gotten so nuanced into social issues that we fail to understand that China is buying up America, we have fallen… — T. D. Jakes Copy Share Image
“Seriously, I don’t like people messing with old ladies. Mi madre had cancer and gave all her Social Security money to a… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
“But now, in a new century and a different time, that great middle class is on the ropes. All across the country,… — Elizabeth Warren Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated. — Grace Napolitano Copy Share Image
We ought to deal with Social Security in a separate conversation that is not part of deficit reduction. — Dick Durbin Copy Share Image
Social Security is not in crisis. It's a crisis the president's created, period. — Harry Reid Copy Share Image
Social Security is a tax and an insurance program. It's not a 401(k) program. — Todd Wilcox Copy Share Image
I think we can reform Social Security without raising taxes, which is better for economic growth. — Margaret Hoover Copy Share Image
Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
