Social Security Quotes
393 Social Security quotes by 235 unique authors
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One line I'd draw would be on raising the eligibility age for Social Security and Medicare. It sounds fair, since people are living longer. But…
— Gail Collins
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The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.
— Mitch Daniels
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The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change…
— Mitch Daniels
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I've developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was to try to…
— Jim DeMint
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If a movie is really working, you forget for two hours your Social Security number and where your car is parked. You are having a…
— Roger Ebert
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Should any political party attempt to abolish social security, unemployment insurance, and eliminate labor laws and farm programs, you would not hear of that party…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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We're an air bag society that wants guarantees on everything that we buy. We want to be able to take everything back and get another…
— James Hillman
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It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.
— Gary Johnson
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I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.
— Jack Kingston
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You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.
— Richard Lamm
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I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social…
— Richard Lamm
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Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most…
— Richard Lamm
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My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917.…
— Spike Lee
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Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the…
— Rush Limbaugh
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More young people believe they'll see a U.F.O. than that they'll see their own Social Security benefits.
— Mitch McConnell
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The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.
— Mitch McConnell
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We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.
— Mitch McConnell
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Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others, but favor it if it helps them - take social security,…
— Jon Meacham
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I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among…
— Jon Meacham
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If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.
— Michael Moore
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Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My…
— Michael Moore
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family…
— Barack Obama
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We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.
— Barack Obama
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
— Rand Paul
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The Republican promise is for policies that create economic growth. Republicans believe lower taxes, less regulation, balanced budgets, a solvent Social Security and Medicare will…
— Rand Paul
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