Benefits Quote by Steve Israel

The Social Security program is a pact between workers and their employers that they will contribute to a common fund to ensure that those…

— Jimmy Carter

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

Social Security is the foundation stone of that kind of retirement security. It not only needs to be strengthened in order to make sure…

— Hedrick Smith

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

Social Security Works! puts expanding Social Security front and center on the national agenda, where it belongs. Everyone who has a stake in the…

— Bernie Sanders

Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of…

— Ginny Brown-Waite

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

The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need.…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal,…

— Mitch McConnell

“Generations of Americans built our Social Security system to provide basic and widespread protection against loss of earnings arising from the death, disability, or…

— David Cay Johnston

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

— Diane Watson

We must ensure that today's seniors' benefits are rock solid and find a solution that fixes Social Security for the next generation that is…

— John Thune