Quotes About Benefits

Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets.

Social Security is an extremely complicated program.

Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.

Social Security faces financial problems down the road because of demographics.

I am staunchly committed to ensuring the long-term solvency of Social Security and preserving full benefits for Americans who have spent their entire working lives contributing to this program.

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

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

Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments.

Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.

I have the highest number of Social Security recipients of any Member of Congress, and it is always good to hear about how women in their districts are affected by any changes, by the need for changes in Social Security.

Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits.

We can preserve Social Security benefits for generations of Americans without privatizing this important program.

I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare.

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

The President and I agree that Social Security needs to be preserved so that we can ensure that all Americans receive the retirement benefits they've been promised. But we disagree as to how best to fix the system.

I do not believe that the Social Security system is in crisis. The Social Security Administration itself recently reported that the system is able to pay full benefits as they are defined today until at least 2042.

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

To me, it is clear that the Social Security program is constitutional.

Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem.

Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true.

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).

It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.

Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.