Burden Quote by Cal Thomas

Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and…

— Norm Coleman

Why should old people get [Social Security]? They just sit around all day doing nothing.

— Pat Paulsen

What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social…

— Dennis Moore

Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its…

— Bill Frist

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

Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.

— Tim Kaine

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 I'm glad…

— Mazie Hirono

Raising the age of Social Security retirement is not the answer. For so many jobs that are back-breaking jobs, physically burdensome jobs, we're raising…

— Brad Schneider

Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity…

— Barack Obama

Social Security is not just the foundation of America's retirement dignity and security, it ensures the economic stability and strength of our families and…

— Debbie Stabenow

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

— Herb Kohl