Social Security Quotes - Page 2

• It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.

  Fred Upton

  People, Benefits, Might

  "Super Congress Deficit Committee Member Fred Upton: No Cuts To Social Security Benefits" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2011.

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• It will take hard work, but doing nothing on Social Security, for example, simply makes sure the system will go broke. It's time to make some reforms.

  Joni Ernst

  Hard Work, Example, Reform

  Source: hotair.com

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• Social Security Works! puts expanding Social Security front and center on the national agenda, where it belongs. Everyone who has a stake in the debate should read this important book.

  Bernie Sanders

  Book, Important, Agendas

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• Prescription drug prices are skyrocketing and one-third of all seniors depend on Social Security for at least 90% of their income.

  Bernie Sanders

  Senior, Drug, Income

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• When the average Social Security benefit is $1328 a month, and more than one-third of our senior citizens rely on Social Security for Virtually all of their income, our job is to expand benefits, not cut them.

  Bernie Sanders

  Senior, Jobs, Cutting

  FaceBook post by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders from Feb 10, 2016

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• Instead of talking about cuts in Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, we must end the absurdity of corporations not paying a nickel in federal income taxes.

  Bernie Sanders

  Cutting, Medicare And Medicaid, Talking

  FaceBook post by U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders from Nov 03, 2013

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• The real problem is that the financial base for our social security system is shrinking because the number of normal jobs is falling. In other words, we have to address the challenge of how to make employment, in the classic sense, attractive once again.

  Angela Merkel

  Jobs, Real, Fall

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• Social security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. We are not going to cut social security! We are going to expand social security!

  Bernie Sanders

  Cutting, Successful, Government

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• Most people don't realize that two-thirds of the federal budget is Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, and the Pentagon. The U.S. government is an insurance company with an Army.

  Scott Pelley

  Army, Government, Two

  Source: www.cbsnews.com

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• Carli Fiorina thinks the answer for Social Security and Medicare is...zero-based budgeting! Christ. People of a certain age are all banging their heads on the table right now.

  Ted Cruz

  Zero, Thinking, People

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• [Social Security ] is not in crisis at this stage. Leave Social Security alone. We have a lot of other places we can look that is in crisis. But Social Security is not.

  Harry Reid

  Looks, Social, Stage

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• When do corporations begin to lose their credibility? They fought Social Security, Medicare, auto safety. They fought every social justice movement in this country.

  Ralph Nader

  Country, Justice, Safety

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• I never voted to spend one penny of Social Security money.

  Ron Paul

  Pennies, Social, Security

  "Ron Paul, John Harwood and Chuck Todd". "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. December 23, 2007.

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• Stock market risk is ok, but not for Social Security.

  Barack Obama

  Risk, Social, Security

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• A Harris poll I've seen says only 12 percent of the electorate names taxes as one of the most important issues facing the nation. Voters put tax cuts dead last, behind education, Social Security, health care, Medicare and poverty.

  Lane Evans

  Cutting, Issues, Names

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• Cuts to Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security benefits are unacceptable, and they shouldn’t be put on the table by Democrats for any reason...

  Russ Feingold

  Cutting, Benefits, Tables

  "Russ Feingold: Nancy Pelosi Needs To Stand Strong" by Ryan Grim, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 3, 2012.

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• We need to expand Social Security to prevent the looming retirement crisis, and we can do it simply by asking billionaires to pay their fair share.

  Robert Reich

  Retirement, Needs, Asking

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• In the party of Lincoln and Reagan and much of the donor class, the defense of human life is what they think loses elections. They think we need to spend time on really popular ideas, like cutting your mom's Social Security check.

  Gary Bauer

  Mom, Party, Cutting

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• Why should old people get [Social Security]? They just sit around all day doing nothing.

  Pat Paulsen

  People, Doing Nothing, Social

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• What man could afford to pay for all the things a wife does, when she's a cook, a mistress, a chauffeur, a nurse, a baby-sitter? But because of this, I feel women ought to have equal rights, equal Social Security, equal opportunities for education, an equal chance to establish credit.

  Betty Ford

  Baby, Opportunity, Men

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• There are major efforts being made to dismantle Social Security, the public schools, the post office - anything that benefits the population has to be dismantled. Efforts against the U.S. Postal Service are particularly surreal.

  Noam Chomsky

  School, Office, Effort

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• The various Social Security privatization schemes, full and partial, would cost both the 'social' - that is the public, cooperative, societal - element of the program and 'security' - the rock-solid income guarantee afforded by the system. It should be rejected.

  Ralph Nader

  Rocks, Income, Cost

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• This is what class warfare looks like: The Business Roundtable - representing Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, JP Morgan Chase and others - has called on Congress to raise the eligibility age of Social Security and Medicare to 70, cut Social Security and veterans' COLAs, raise taxes on working families and cut taxes for the largest corporations in America.

  Bernie Sanders

  Cutting, Class, America

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• Why don't Republicans spend all their airtime attacking the media for lying about what Obama's amnesty does and what the Democrats are doing? It's hard to avoid concluding that Republicans aren't trying to make the right arguments. In fact, it kind of looks like they're intentionally throwing the fight on amnesty. If a Republican majority in both houses of Congress can't stop Obama from issuing illegal immigrants Social Security cards and years of back welfare payments, there is no reason to vote Republican ever again.

  Ann Coulter

  Lying, Fighting, Years

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• Instead of cutting Social Security, we're going to expand Social Security benefits.

  Bernie Sanders

  Cutting, Benefits, Social

  Bernie Sanders (2016). “Our Revolution: A Future to Believe in”, p.106, Profile Books

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