Quotes About Policy

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.

They ought to be focused on saving healthcare. They ought to be focused on making sure we don't privatize Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. That's where the Democrats ought to be.

We got to fight to protect Social Security.

If we elect people who have never been to public school, never had to worry about counting on Social Security, then how can they effectively legislate?

I'm a conservative, but with a focus on average people. For instance, I support Social Security and Medicare.

Social Security is the most important social program in America.

We ought to deal with Social Security in a separate conversation that is not part of deficit reduction.

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

We can't keep flirting with communism and socialism.

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.

It was not that socialism failed, it was the lack of socialism.

We must reduce all the emissions that are destroying the planet. However, that requires a change in lifestyle, a change in the economic model: We must go from capitalism to socialism.

Is Medicare socialism? You want to get rid of Medicare. And a lot of the people against health care do. I want to preserve it and grow it.

Democratic socialism means that our government does everything it can to create a full employment economy.

Obamanomics, his imposition of European-style socialism, is not working for African-Americans. It is not working for Latinos and African-Americans.

I believe that all forms of socialism have been proven over time to result in a loss of both economic and civil liberties, with increasing poverty.

I think of myself as a democratic capitalist, although I think the word 'socialism' loses its meaning every time that it is used to describe literally any policy left of far right by the current Republicans.

Socialism most always leads to a failure of democracy because the economic system ultimately cannot provide for its people.

'Democratic socialism' is awful as a slogan and catastrophic as a policy. And 'social democracy' - a term that better fits the belief of more ordinary liberals who want, say, Medicare for all - is a politically dying force. Democrats who aren't yet sick of all their losing should feel free to embrace them both.

Socialism doesn't work. A big government doesn't work.

The market economy of its own cannot destroy socialism. But to build socialism with success, it is necessary to develop a market economy in an adequate and correct way.

I am not a socialist.

India needs to come out of its socialist pattern of doing things on a rationing basis.