Elderly Quote by Richard Lamm

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

— Pat Paulsen

I have long been a critic of Social Security, basically because I believe that it is not the business of government to tell people…

— Milton Friedman

I stand with the millions of seniors and working people who depend on Social Security and who expect the money they put in to…

— Hank Johnson

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

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

I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It's a program by which the…

— Bernie Sanders

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

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

Social Security is a widely popular program because the individual has been deceived by the Statist to believe that the government has been prudently…

— Mark Levin

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

Over half of people who are working now and over 50 have nothing for retirement savings. They will only have Social Security to rely on.

— Teresa Ghilarducci

When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count…

— Barbara Mikulski