Live Quote by Michael Moore

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

— Bernie Sanders

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

A year's worth of Social Security for an individual is not considered to be below the poverty level, and yet we know that would…

— Mellody Hobson

“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, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

— Chaka Fattah

Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.

— Adam Cohen

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

— Tim Kaine

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 not only helps Americans enjoy a secure retirement, it has also kept millions of Americans out of poverty.

— Zoe Lofgren

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

— Pat Paulsen

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

As a result of the current universal benefit, the poverty rate for seniors in America is about 10%. Without the universal benefit, it would…

— Steve Israel