Country Quote by Bernie Sanders

I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It's a program by which the…

— Bernie Sanders

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has…

— Steve Israel

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

— Elizabeth Warren

“The Socialist social contract was tartly summed up in the popular joke: ‘you pretend to work, we pretend to pay you’. Many workers, especially…

— Tony Judt

Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.

— Bernie Sanders

“Without Social Security, the official U.S. poverty rate among the aged would jump from 9 percent to nearly 50 percent—about the same rate as…

— David Cay Johnston

Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard, and played by the rules, and paid into…

— Chris Christie

Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax…

— John Shadegg

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.

— Oswald Spengler

I have long been a critic of Social Security, basically because I believe that it is not the business of government to tell people…

— Milton Friedman

Unemployment insurance, abolishing child labor, the 40-hour work week, collective bargaining, strong banking regulations, deposit insurance, and job programs that put millions of people…

— Bernie Sanders

“In fact, in its most basic form, socialism was a belief in more equitable distribution of wealth, with everyone afforded the opportunity to thrive…

— Jeff Guinn