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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 meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard, and played by the rules, and paid into…

— Chris Christie

The full retirement age is 67 and the lifespan is 80, so when they first conceived Social Security, they didn't think they were going…

— Joe Heck

People expect those in authority to take on big problems and to solve them. We had an opportunity to reform Social Security in a…

— George W. Bush

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

“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

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

The 1935 Social Security Act established 65 as the age of eligibility for payouts. But welfare state politics quickly becomes a bidding war, enriching…

— George Will

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

As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then…

— Steve Israel

Social Security was always supposed to be basically in theory an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.

— Judd Gregg

Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American…

— John Shadegg