Social Security Quotes - Page 17

• You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

  Richard Lamm

  Thinking, Waste, Months

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• Knowledge is power. Most of us agree that something has to be done to strengthen Social Security, and I believe it's irresponsible to arbitrarily dismiss any idea, Republican nor Democrat, without giving it a hard look.

  Conrad Burns

  Believe, Knowledge And Power, Ideas

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• In order to fix Social Security, we must restructure it so that we continue to provide for our Nation's seniors that are approaching retirement age, but allow for younger taxpayers to invest a portion of their Social Security taxes in private accounts.

  Herman Cain

  Birthday, Senior, Retirement

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• Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.

  Herman Cain

  Media, Order, Needs

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• The rule for effective governance is simple. It is one Ronald Reagan knew by heart. And one that he successfully employed with Social Security and the Cold War. When there is a problem, you fix it. That is the job you have been sent to do and you cannot wait for someone else to do it for you.

  Chris Christie

  Jobs, War, Heart

  Speech at the Ronald Reagan Library in Simi Valley, California, www.weeklystandard.com. September 27, 2011.

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• I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren.

  Tom Coburn

  Dream, Children, Believe

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• 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.

  Gail Collins

  Mean, Years, Hearing

  "The Fiscal Riff". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. January 2, 2013.

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• I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change.

  Richard Lamm

  Party, Past, Thinking

  CNN's "Inside Politics Weekend" with Jeanne Meserve, www.cnn.com. July 7, 1996.

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• Vote to stand tall against terrorists ; receive Social Security privatization . Vote to strike a blow against elitism; receive a social order in which wealth is more concentrated than ever before in our lifetimes , in which workers have been stripped of power and CEOs are rewarded in a manner beyond imagining.

  Thomas Frank

  Blow, Order, Vote

  Thomas Frank (2007). “What's the Matter with Kansas?: How Conservatives Won the Heart of America”, p.7, Macmillan

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• Politicians will promise some pretty ridiculous things. They will promise a chicken in every pot. They'll promise that they'll keep Social Security solvent. They'll promise drugs for old people. They'll promise lots of stuff. But it doesn't come near the kind of promises that religion makes. The Mormons promise that if you're good while you're on Earth, you get to rule over your own planet in the afterlife. Now, there's an entitlement that goes a little bit beyond prescription drugs for old people.

  Bill Maher

  Afterlife, People, Drug

  Interview with David Steinberg, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 30, 2008.

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• I don't think the press has done a very good job dealing with government spending.The Defense Department with the $9,500 toilet seat, that's not the problem anymore. Medicare and Medicaid and Social Security are the problem. That's us. That's our generation. There the press never says a word.

  Dave Barry

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  ""All I Think Is That It's Stupid": An Interview with Dave Barry". Interview with Glenn Garvin, reason.com. December, 1994.

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• The only reason there is a crisis about Social Security in the US and pensions in Europe and Japan is that you cannot maintain a "Ponzi" scheme indefinitely. We have collected from today's young to pay today's old and counted on tomorrow's young to keep doing so. That was a fine scheme as long as the number of young people was rising faster than old people. When that ratio comes to an end, such a system also has to end.

  Milton Friedman

  Japan, Europe, Numbers

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Reform immigration to make it easy for individuals to come over here, be documented, pay taxes - immigration reform is needed to state that its about work, its not about welfare... Set up a grace period where they can get a work permit... social security card so that they can pay income tax, social security, Medicare.

  Gary Johnson

  Grace, Cards, Pay

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• America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.

  Bill Johnson

  Military, America, Pay

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• 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.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Successful, Pay, Able

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• We're not going to give tax breaks to billionaires and then cut back on the needs of our elderly or poor or kids or education. We're not going to privatize Social Security - in fact, we're going to strengthen it. We're going to provide quality education for every kid in America, from preschool through college. We have to take on these corporate leaders who are selling out the American people, whose allegiance is now much more to China than it is to the United States. If we have the courage to take these people on, I think we can overwhelm George W. Bush and his friends.

  Bernie Sanders

  Kids, Cutting, Thinking

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• How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.

  Neil Simon

  Long, Enjoy Life, Waiting

  Neil Simon (1971). “The comedy of Neil Simon”, Random House Inc

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• These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure foods and safe drugs, Social Security, Medicare and rules that promote competitive markets over monopolies and cartels.

  Bill Moyers

  Children, Law, Safety

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• [Oliver North is a] document-shredding, Constitution-trashing, Commander in Chief-bashing, Congress-thrashing, uniform-shaming, Ayatollah-loving, arms-dealing, criminal-protecting, résumé-enhancing, Noriega-coddling, Social
  Security-threatening, public school-denigrating, Swiss-banking-law-breaking, letter-faking, self-serving, election-losing, snake-oil salesman who can't tell the difference between the truth and a lie.

  Chuck Robb

  Funny, Lying, School

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• As you know President Bush has been traveling around the country trying to sell his new Social Security plan. He wants to take our retirement money and invest it in the stock market. He says nothing can go wrong. I'll mention that to Martha Stewart the next time I see her.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Retirement, Trying

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• We were giving advice for the single-worst idea to come forward from a group that's been rife with them, it would be this: The idea is this: Let's make the tax code of America better for very rich people; let's give substantial tax relief to the richest people we can find. Forget about the person making $40,000 a year and paying Social Security payroll tax. Forget about all those other people paying income tax; we're here to give tax relief to the richest 2% of America.

  Barney Frank

  Years, Ideas, Payroll Tax

  "Estate Tax Debate". "PBS NewsHour" with Kwame Holman, www.pbs.org. June 08, 2000.

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• For decades the G.O.P. has won elections by appealing to social and racial divisions, only to turn after each victory to deregulation and tax cuts for the wealthy — a process that reached its epitome when George W. Bush won re-election by posing as America's defender against gay married terrorists, then announced that he had a mandate to privatize Social Security.

  Paul Krugman

  Cutting, Gay, America

  "Severe Conservative Syndrome". www.nytimes.com. February 12, 2012.

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• As part of Social Security reform, I believe that private savings accounts are a part of it - along the lines that President Bush proposed.

  John McCain

  Believe, President, Lines

  "John McCain Thinks Social Security Is A 'Disgrace'" by Nick Baumann, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2008.

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• For us, democracy is a question of human dignity. This includes the political liberties, the right to freely express our views, the right to criticize and to influence opinion. It embraces the right to health and work, to education and social security.

  Olof Palme

  Views, Political, Democracy

  "Eurosocialism and America: political economy for the 1980s". Book edited by Nancy I. Lieber, ‎Institute for Democratic Socialism, p. 222, 1982.

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• Our anti-crisis policy is aimed at supporting domestic demand, providing social guarantees for the population, and creating new jobs. Like many countries, we have reduced production taxes, leaving money in the economy. We have optimised state spending.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Jobs, Honesty

  Prime Minister Vladimir Putin’s Speech at the Opening Ceremony of the World Economic Forum, archive.premier.gov.ru. January 28, 2009.

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