Quotes About Security

You have to be very limited in who you give your social security number to.

The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot.

The administration is manufacturing a crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle Social Security.

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

Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner.

When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.

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

It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

Why shouldn't future generations and young Americans have the choice to earn a higher rate of return? Why shouldn't they be able to own their own Social Security so that Congress can't spend it on other things?

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 is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.

Social Security is a covenant that should not be broken.

A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.

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

For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.

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.

There has to be a better, smarter way to authenticate who somebody is. Social Security numbers are floating out there everywhere.

I will fight like the dickens to protect Social Security.

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.

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.