If Congress doesn't raise taxes, you cannot get a private investment account without forgoing a portion, possibly all, of your guaranteed benefit check.

We must explain the truth: There is no free lunch.

We must take the time to do what needs to be done now, what is right, instead of passing a bad bill.

President Bush has consistently used rhetoric, and that is not convincing given his past record.

A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.

Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.

There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.

To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.

Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

I tried. But not everybody thought so.

Almost any seat was comfortable at one-sixth of a gravity.

I could never teach people to be philosophers - and if I did, you could never make a gardener out of them.

Life is filled with trapdoors.

Nature delights in progress; in advance.

Loyalty is a good for the loyal man; but it may be mischievous for those whom his cause assails.

I didn't know if I was heterosexual or homosexual.

The landscape thinks itself in me and I am its consciousness.

Once a nation parts with the control of its credit, it matters not who makes the laws.

You try to get out there and live. I've always had good friends who've been very supportive and help make me feel good and grounded because I've never felt attached to the film industry.