Live Quote by Mellody Hobson

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

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

— Chris Christie

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

Without Social Security benefits, more than 40 percent of Americans 65 years and older would live below the federal poverty line. Even more striking…

— Mike Quigley

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 the greatest swindle of the poor ever.

— Stephen Moore

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

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

Social Security is inherently unsound for the simple reason that it's a political program run by politicians for political purposes...Social Security operates on a…

— Harry Browne

With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to be a much larger debate.

— Frank Keating