Quotes About Social security

I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.

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.

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.

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.

What will we do in a globalised world? All human beings are equal, so they have the same right to have the same lifestyle-the same social security, jobs, education.

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.

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.

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.

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

Because of my own experience with market fluctuation, I recognize the great risks one takes on investments. This converts the Social Security safety net into a risky proposition many cannot afford to take.

Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

We're taking on Social Security as a property rights issue. We figure that every single American has an absolute property right interest in the fruits of his or her own labor. What I work for should be my property.

The mortal enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who, in contempt of the plain arithmetic, continue to mislead Americans that we should change nothing.

Social Security faces a long-term actuarial deficit, yes.

I've never seen a constructive Social Security debate that started with one side digging in, in one place and another side digging into another.

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

In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.

Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem.

All of us who serve in the House of Representatives and the Senate pay into Social Security.

The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled.

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).