Quotes About Reform

There's no social justice in destroying a police force.

I am, in general, favourable to activism and social movements and hostile to graft and corruption.

But here's what I would tell people of my generation. I turn 40 this year. There isn't going to be a Social Security. There isn't going to be a Medicare when you retire. Forget about what your benefit is going to look like. There isn't going to be one if we don't make some reforms to save that program now.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

We will battle day and night to pass social security reform.

I oppose the president's plan to privatize Social Security.

Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.

The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.

If it were the Clinton people, they'd be sitting around figuring out how to pull themselves out. Instead the president is continuing to go around the country and peddling Social Security, which the needle is not moving on.

Small changes done now would preserve Social Security at full benefit.

It is not secret here in Congress we have not had the discipline in many instances to keep our hands out of the cookie jar of Social Security. Now to stop this I propose that in the future that Congress cannot get its hands on the money in the first place.

There are many commitments I have made for reducing poverty. One is to reform social security. Social security reaches only 44 percent of Mexicans. One of my goals is to give social security to all the people.

We ought to look at Social Security. We ought to ask ourselves the question, is there inherently something wrong with Social Security that a man like me is eligible for Social Security? There's something wrong with the system.

I've developed a lot of reform proposals myself and been accused of trying to destroy Social Security, when the whole point was to try to save it. I think most people know that Social Security is bankrupt.

The Democrats and Republicans need to come together. I've criticized Democrats for their unwillingness to address entitlement reform and Social Security and Medicare. Republicans, on the other hand, never saw a tax that they liked, even when it meant closing tax loopholes. They don't want to in any way support any revenue enhancements.

People talk about Social Security. There is no parallel between Rhode Island's pension and Social Security.

If a country like Chile can fix its social security system, there is no reason a country as great as the United States... can't fix our Social Security system.

We keep a woman in prison for decade after decade at a cost of $60,000 a year, and then give them $200 when they hit the gates for release. And, adios. People have to get their IDs, Social Security cards. They have to get clothing, housing, apply for benefits and services, and it's impossible to do with 200 bucks.

I think we can reform Social Security without raising taxes, which is better for economic growth.

It is my idea to make capitalism create socialism in China so that these two economic forces of human evolution will work side by side in future civilization.

In the past 20 years and more since China embarked on the road of reform and opening up, we have moved steadfastly to promote political restructuring and vigorously build democratic politics under socialism.

There is nothing in socialism that a little age or a little money will not cure.