Social Security Quotes

• Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.

  Hank Johnson

  Government, Promise, Generations

  "Social Security Is Not the Problem" by Rep. Hank Johnson, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 23, 2013.

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  If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Success, Helping Others

  Inaugural Address, 20 Jan. 1961

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• No matter what politicians promise, Social Security reform will not change the fact that your money is taken from your paycheck and sent to Washington, where it will be spent.

  Ron Paul

  Taken, Promise, Reform

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• If we do not act now to strengthen Social Security, the system that so many depend upon today will be unable to meet its promises to tomorrow's retirees, and it will burden our children and grandchildren with exhaustive taxes.

  Chris Chocola

  Children, Promise, Today

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• Should any political party attempt to abolish social security unemployment insurance and eliminate labor laws and farm programs you would not hear of that party again in our political history. There is a tiny splinter group of course that believes you can do these things. Among them are a few other Texas oil millionaires and an occasional politician or business man from other areas. Their number is negligible and they are stupid.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Stupid, Party, Believe

  Letter to Edgar Newton Eisenhower, teachingamericanhistory.org. November 08, 1954.

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• This law represents a cornerstone in a structure which is being built but is by no means completed--a structure intended to lessen the force of possible future depressions, to act as a protection to future administrations of the Government against the necessity of going deeply into debt to furnish relief to the needy--a law to flatten out the peaks and valleys of deflation and of inflation--in other words, a law that will take care of human needs and at the same time provide for the United States an economic structure of vastly greater soundness.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Mean, Government, Law

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• I was too old for a paper route, too young for Social Security and too tired for an affair.

  Erma Bombeck

  Tired, Literature, Paper

  Erma Bombeck (2013). “The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank”, p.28, Open Road Media

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• Of course the Republicans have long wanted to privatize Social Security and destroy it. But Social Security has been the most important and valuable social program in the history of the United States.

  Bernie Sanders

  Long, Important, United States

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It's a program by which the United States government has said that when you get old you should have a steady source of income.

  Bernie Sanders

  Fall, Government, Should Have

  "Bernie Sanders On Being Jewish And A Democratic Socialist". "Morning Edition" with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. November 6, 2015.

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• Madoff's scam was small compared to Ponzi schemes the government itself runs: Social Security and Medicare.

  John Stossel

  Running, Government, Scams

  "Madoff Is a Piker" by John Stossel, townhall.com. January 7, 2009.

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• Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Retirement, Way, Pleasure

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• You know, there was a recent poll which said that young people in the generation of the students here felt it was far more likely that they would see a UFO than that they would draw Social Security... It's very important you understand this. Once you understand this, you realize this is not an episode from the X Files, and you're not more likely to see a UFO if you do certain specific things.

  William J. Clinton

  People, Important, Generations

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• To avoid large and unsustainable budget deficits, the nation will ultimately have to choose among higher taxes, modifications to entitlement programs such as Social Security and Medicare, less spending on everything else from education to defense, or some combination of the above.

  Ben Bernanke

  Defense, Entitlement, Social

  "Economic Challenges: Past, Present, and Future". Speech at the Dallas Regional Chamber, Dallas, Texas, www.federalreserve.gov. April 07, 2010.

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• Social Security's future has gotten worse, and each year we delay reform adds to the cost we are pushing off onto our children.

  John Goodman

  Children, Years, Reform

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• What Donald Trump is proposing with these massive tax cuts will result in a $20 trillion additional national debt. That will have dire consequences for Social Security and Medicare.

  Hillary Clinton

  Cutting, Debt, Social

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• No government can provide social security. It is not in the nature of government to be able to provide anything. Government itself is not self-supporting. It lives by taxation. Therefore, since it cannot provide for itself but by taking toll of what the people produce, how can it provide social security for the people?

  Garet Garrett

  Government, Self, People

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• Social Security is a widely popular program because the individual has been deceived by the Statist to believe that the government has been prudently and diligently managing his accumulated pension investment in his Social Security account, which he presumes to be funded by his own payroll taxes.

  Mark Levin

  Believe, Government, Payroll Tax

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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• For Social Security to be financially sound, the federal government should have $100 trillion - a sum of money six-and-a-half times the size of our entire economy - in the bank and earning interest right now. But it doesn't. And while many believe that Social Security represents our greatest entitlement problem, Medicare is six times larger in terms of unfunded obligations.

  John C. Goodman

  Believe, Government, Should Have

  "A Prescription for American Health Care". imprimis.hillsdale.edu. March 2009.

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• But here's what I would tell people of my generation. I turn 40 this year. There isn't going to be a Social Security. There isn't going to be a Medicare when you retire. Forget about what your benefit is going to look like. There isn't going to be one if we don't make some reforms to save that program now.

  Marco Rubio

  Years, People, Reform

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• The rate of return on Social Security for people nearing retirement is about 1.5 percent. By the time young children like mine are ready to retire, that rate of return will be a negative percentage.

  Paul Ryan

  Retirement, Children, People

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• This debt crisis coming to our country. The wall and tidal wave of debt that is befalling our nation. Medicare and Social Security go bankrupt within ten years, we have a debt that is looming so high that in the last year of President Obama's budget just the interest payments on our debt is $916 billion dollars.

  Paul Ryan

  Country, Wall, Years

  "Politico" Interview, www.politico.com. March 24, 2010.

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• The reason Social Security is in big trouble is we don't have enough workers to support the retirees. Well, a third of all the young people in America are not in America today because of abortion, because one in three pregnancies end in abortion.

  Rick Santorum

  Pregnancy, America, People

  "Rick Santorum, GOP presidential hopeful, blames Social Security problems on abortion" by Aliah Shahid, www.nydailynews.com. March 30, 2011.

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• Do we really want the people who created $40 trillion of unfunded liabilities in Social Security and Medicare in charge of our health care? Faceless bureaucrats, power-lusting politicians, and people spending other people's money are a recipe for disaster.

  Ed Crane

  People, Lust, Want

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• I'd like to promote lots of things. I'd like to promote elimination of drug prohibition. I'd like to promote parental choice in education through vouchers. Those are two things I think are very urgent and important. They're both more important than the harm which Social Security will do.

  Milton Friedman

  Thinking, Two, Choices

  Source: rightwingnews.com

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• The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It utilizes the familiar machinery of our Federal-State government to promote the common welfare and the economic stability of the Nation.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Government, Needs, Citizens

  Roosevelt, Franklin D. (1941). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: F.D. Roosevelt, 1938, Volume 7”, p.480, Best Books on

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