Dubious Quote by Ron Chernow

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

— Tony Snow

Stock market risk is ok, but not for Social Security.

— Barack Obama

A lot of the money in the stock market is really our national retirement plan, for better or worse.

— Ron Chernow

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that…

— Mary Landrieu

Now, Social Security through the years, for many many people, has been a terrible investment. It's really a tax, that's all it is. Social…

— Todd Akin

Do I want to see people take their Social Security payments and put them into private accounts, open up an eTrade account and go…

— Sean Duffy

Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net…

— Grace Napolitano

I am on record as saying that we need to put more money into the Social Security Trust Fund. That's part of my commitment…

— Hillary Clinton

The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact,…

— Max Baucus

As you know President Bush has been traveling around the country trying to sell his new Social Security plan. He wants to take our…

— Jay Leno

First of all, the Social Security money belongs to Main Street, not to Wall Street. It needs to be said very clearly here that…

— Dennis Kucinich

We really haven't had very much experience with people funding their retirement out of the stock market, and we don't know, frankly, how it…

— Ron Chernow