Quotes About Government

They ought to be focused on saving healthcare. They ought to be focused on making sure we don't privatize Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security. That's where the Democrats ought to be.

We got to fight to protect Social Security.

If we elect people who have never been to public school, never had to worry about counting on Social Security, then how can they effectively legislate?

I'm a conservative, but with a focus on average people. For instance, I support Social Security and Medicare.

The real Social Security crisis is that the government does not have the money to redeem its IOUs.

While everyone is focused on security and civil liberties, Trump's Cabinet of billionaires will try to quietly push through even more extreme measures to enrich themselves and their class, like dismantling Social Security or auctioning off major pieces of government for profit.

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.

I worked as a clerical assistant at the Department of Health and Social Security for about three months before I went to drama school.

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.

Under a government committed to cutting public services to the bone, the police are often left to clean up all sorts of untidy situations that are really social work or housing, mental and physical health issues.

Democracy is the road to socialism.

We can't afford to go down the dead end roads of Parliamentary Socialism or Fascistic Bolshevism.

Democracy is indispensable to socialism.

Democracy and socialism are means to an end, not the end itself.

The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

To me, democratic socialism means democracy. It means creating a government that represents all of us, not just the wealthiest people in the country.

We can't keep flirting with communism and socialism.

Socialism also brings us up against the hard rock of eugenic fact which, if we neglect it, will dash our most beautiful social construction to fragments.

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.

Ultimately, and I believe this is one of the fundamental problems with socialism, it's that human beings do have self-interest. It's very hard to ignore that self-interest when you're creating a government structure.