Quotes About Benefits

Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.

I don't support getting rid of Social Security.

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

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.

No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.

What we need is to make our senior citizens feel secure once more with their own Social Security and Medicare. But going forward, we need to personalize that program in a way that the government can't go in and raid it any more.

Social Security is fundamentally strong.

When I was young, many people worked for a company with a pension plan that covered them for as long as they lived. If they didn't have a pension plan, they could count on Social Security and Medicare.

Because Social Security has not contributed to our debt, Americans should be skeptical of any politician who says that benefits Americans have earned must be reduced in order to address our national debt.

The debate over Social Security should not be about how much we can cut from the program in order to balance the federal budget. The debate over Social Security should not be about raising the retirement age or limiting benefits. The debate over Social Security should be about retirement security.

The Social Security disability fund is going belly up in 2016.

In 1935, the year Social Security was created, the poverty rate for seniors was over 70%.

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

Claiming that Social Security benefits are safe may sound naive, but my view is actually quite cynical. I believe that as long as the elderly continue to vote in large numbers, no Congress will renege on promised payouts for those already eligible to receive benefits.

We got to fight to protect Social Security.

Democrats need to stand strong against any efforts to cut benefits to 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.

Social Security is a tax and an insurance program. It's not a 401(k) program.

While more people are working later in life because of happy things like longer life expectancy, they are also doing so because of very sad things, like a lack of Social Security benefits or retirement plans.

Social Security is the greatest swindle of the poor ever.

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

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.

Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?