Average Quote by Stephen Moore

The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready…

— Paul Ryan

From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage…

— Wayne Allard

Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That's what we know and have known…

— James Roosevelt

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

Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits.

— Ginny Brown-Waite

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

The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working…

— John Shadegg

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

The real problem is that the financial base for our social security system is shrinking because the number of normal jobs is falling. In…

— Angela Merkel

When the average Social Security benefit is $1328 a month, and more than one-third of our senior citizens rely on Social Security for Virtually…

— Bernie Sanders

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

You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

— Richard Lamm