Benefits Quote by Ginny Brown-Waite

On the other end of the spectrum, these women who do live long enough to collect Social Security face the challenge of being disproportionately…

— Ginny Brown-Waite

Social Security is based on a principle. It's based on the principle that you care about other people. You care whether the widow across…

— Noam Chomsky

Social Security is a tax.

— Todd Akin

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

— Pat Paulsen

Social Security may be the most beloved of all the government's programs, partly because it requires so little thinking. You pay taxes while you…

— Richard Thaler

Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in…

— Barbara Mikulski

But I'm saying we are loosing the people who are going to pay my social security. And that bothers me.

— Joycelyn Elders

If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its…

— Chris Chocola

Through good times and bad, American workers and their families have been able to rely on Social Security to provide guaranteed protection against the…

— Sander Levin

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

— David Cay Johnston

With more than half of the American workforce without private pension coverage, Social Security provides economic certainty within a system that is fair, equitable,…

— Mike Quigley

If a woman did not work and have the opportunity to save and invest on her own throughout her lifetime, she is often totally…

— Anonymous