Social Security Quotes

Convert to IRA-based system.

Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.

Retirement security is often compared to a three-legged stool supported by Social Security, employer-provided pension funds, and private savings.

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard, and played by the rules, and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America.

In America, the term younger poet is applied with chivalric liberality. It can be used to describe anyone not yet collecting a Social Security pension.

Corporations are reneging on pension obligations. Social Security is under attack.

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

Let's protect our social security and Medicare.

It used to be, people were afraid to talk about Social Security. Now, I think people should be afraid not to talk about Social Security and start coming up with some solutions.

I'm going to spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issue. I guess, it's the mother in me.

Even without reforms, the Social Security fund will be able to meet 100 percent of its obligations until 2042.

[Social Security ] is not in crisis at this stage. Leave Social Security alone. We have a lot of other places we can look that is in crisis. But Social Security is not.

Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.

What Donald Trump is proposing with these massive tax cuts will result in a $20 trillion additional national debt. That will have dire consequences for Social Security and Medicare.

If I say things like I'm going to erase someone's Social Security number, we all know I clearly don't work at the Social Security office.

Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.

Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.

I've never denied my sexual orientation. I just don't make a point of it. It isn't what I do. Clearly, I'm known for the work I've done on trade and Social Security.

When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.

When you run ads saying you are going to save social security, my friend, that's all hat and no cattle.

I just think that we ought to protect the Social Security fund.

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

The president (George W. Bush) says let's have private accounts, and take the surplus money that's being gathered now in Social Security and put it into private accounts. That works.

I'm not in favor of privatizing Social Security or making cuts.

Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.

There are no plans in President-elect [Donald] Trump's policies moving forward to touch Medicare and Social Security.

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

Do I want to see people take their Social Security payments and put them into private accounts, open up an eTrade account and go into the stock market? Absolutely not.

Not only is privatizing Social Security not the solution to Social Security, it would exacerbate the problem.

For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.

I still have my original social security card signed when I was 13.

All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.

For those who unfairly lump Social Security in with Bernie Madoff, in all fairness, you should point out the difference. No one was ever legally required to pay money to Madoff.

Counting obligations under Medicare and Social Security, the real debt of the United States is more than 10 times the reported national debt.

We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street.

I am not a great fan of the payroll tax holiday because I'm nervous about what it does to the future of Social Security.

Social security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. We are not going to cut social security! We are going to expand social security!

Prescription drug prices are skyrocketing and one-third of all seniors depend on Social Security for at least 90% of their income.

I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.

Do I want Social Security to be there for my kids and my grandkids? Absolutely. Will I fight like a tiger to make sure that we protect Social Security? I absolutely will.

In Washington, the U.S. House passed a bill unanimously. Every single member of both parties voted for it. What was it? To deny Social Security benefits to Nazis. So from now on, no SS for the SS.

Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.

We can talk about Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security. We can talk about school, we can talk about everything. Defense is number one or we don't have a country.

Hillary Clinton has pledged amnesty in her first 100 days, and her plan will provide Obamacare, Social Security, and Medicare for illegal immigrants, breaking the federal budget.

I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems.

Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.

I'd also remind people, if I were running for Presidency, that a long-term problem facing the budget is Social Security and Medicare.

I regret that we weren't able to reform Social Security. The fact that we weren't able to when we had majorities in the House and the Senate I think reflected poorly on our political party.