Quotes About Retirement

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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).

What we should be trying to do is to encourage people to establish private retirement accounts and help them take pressure off the Social Security system.

Social Security has nothing to do with the deficit.

I don't support getting rid of Social Security.

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.

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

Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.

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.

We ought to look at Social Security. We ought to ask ourselves the question, is there inherently something wrong with Social Security that a man like me is eligible for Social Security? There's something wrong with the system.

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.