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

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

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.

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

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.

Chaos limits the free-flow of love and becomes a roadblock to what family members want most and sadly, it becomes the normal for the family.

We live our lives supposing things are as they appear to be when that is almost never the case.

The most successful are not the most perfect, but the imperfect who dare to believe that they can despite the damning verdict.

If you could stretch a given minute, what would you find between its unstuck components? Probably some kind of astral madness. A bleak comprehension of the final size of things.

It is what we are forced to do that forms our character, not what we do of our own free will.

For price is everywhere regulated by the return obtained by this last portion of capital, for which no rent whatever is paid.

Any politician who tells you morality has nothing to do with the law and government is about to do something extremely immoral.

It's a sad day when a cartoon is doing more and cares more and pays more attention to the environment than our president.

When I was a baby feminist, leading feminist thinkers were insisting that if women ran the world, there would be no sadism or war.

When you're an artist, you can only do your own stuff. Even if you only write for other people, you're really more focused on yourself. So while everybody's out touring, I'm working on records.