Social Security Quotes - Page 5

• Last night, I had a telephone townhall for my constituents back in Vermont, and we had 11,500 people on it. And I had people on Social Security saying if getting fewer benefits will help us on the debt, they're for it. And I had a farmer saying that he's had subsidies for 35 years but we can't afford them anymore.

  Peter Welch

  Night, Years, People

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• Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.

  Grace Napolitano

  Security Systems, Community, Important

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• Our political leaders must be honest and forthcoming with data that will allow citizens to use facts and figures to judge for themselves what state Social Security is in.

  Grace Napolitano

  Data, Judging, Leader

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• 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.

  James T. Walsh

  Believe, Security Systems, Benefits

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• Speaking of tax fairness, it was Senator Kerry who voted to increase the income tax on senior citizens on Social Security, earning as little as $32,000 a year.

  William Weld

  Senior, Years, Income

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• The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

  Tony Snow

  Real, Rip, Long

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• If you are wealthy enough, use part or all of your Social Security proceeds to invest in a favorite cause or two. Invest 10 percent or 100 percent of your monthly Social Security check in your favorite charity, foundation, think tank, church or synagogue, or other good cause.

  Mark Skousen

  Thinking, Two, Church

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• I think President Bush tried to step up on Social Security even though the polls showed that was unpopular. He has not been successful and backed off, but I admire people who take on big problems.

  Donna Shalala

  Successful, Thinking, People

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• To fix Social Security, we should first stop using the Consumer Price Index to adjust benefits for inflation. Using the C.P.I. overstates the impact of inflation and has also led to larger increases in benefits for Social Security recipients than the income gains of typical American workers.

  Steven Rattner

  Impact, Income, Benefits

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• Thanks to decades of accumulated federal budget deficits and, more significantly, imprudent Medicare and Social Security policies, we've stolen almost $60 trillion from our children.

  Steven Rattner

  Children, Thanks, Social

  "Stop Stealing From Our Kids" by Steven Rattner, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. March 14, 2013.

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• If you got problems like unemployment, Social Security, Medicaid, Medicare and there's a guy that's always been there for you and for your family, then you say 'He's a nice guy. I don't know where he came from or how long he's been here, but Charlie Rangel's the man.' That's what I'm relying on.

  Charles Rangel

  Nice, Men, Medicare And Medicaid

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• If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

  Rob Portman

  Social, Starting, Very Good

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• Obama has demonstrated no desire to make tough choices. Americans demand a more efficient, effective government, but his budget calls for more taxes and more spending. It employs deceptive accounting gimmicks but does nothing to tackle long-term entitlement problems, nothing to save Medicare or fix Social Security.

  Reince Priebus

  Government, Long, Choices

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• Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what's right and what's left but what's right and what's wrong.

  John Podesta

  Thinking, Issues, People

  "My Interview with CAP President John Podesta". Interview with Jonathan Singer, www.blueoregon.com. March 04, 2005.

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

  Peter R. Orszag

  Long, Faces, Social

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• President Bush is manufacturing a crisis by suggesting that Social Security is in imminent danger. It is not.

  Richard Neal

  President, Social, Danger

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• To allow all U.S. workers to put part of their earnings into private investment accounts would definitely erode the Social Security system and cause uncertainty for new investors.

  Grace Napolitano

  Security Systems, Causes, Erode

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• 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.

  Grace Napolitano

  Fall, Sky, Doubt

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• Social Security is not in crisis. It's a crisis the president's created, period.

  Harry Reid

  President, Social, Periods

  "President Bush Vows to Catch bin Laden. Will Frist Delay Social Security Reform?". "Inside Politics" with Judy Woodruff, edition.cnn.com. March 3, 2005.

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• Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cutting Social Security benefits that Americans have earned should always be a last resort.

  Dennis Cardoza

  Cutting, Benefits, Want

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• When you talk about raising that debt limit, the only way that I would ever support raising the debt limit if we also talk about budgetary controls on the federal government, capping its spending, how do we deal with the Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid problems, because they cannot continue to run on auto-pilot.

  Allen West

  Running, Medicare And Medicaid, Government

  "Darrell Issa, Fred Upton Talk Oversight; Allen West, Mike Lee on Tea Party Conservatives". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. January 02, 2011.

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• I look back to the Great Depression, and what Roosevelt was able to do in very difficult times, to get Social Security through back in the time when it was seen as - well, it wasn't what it is today. It was sort of a last-ditch, if you really need it, you got it, but, today, it's much more a part of your retirement program.

  Chris Matthews

  Retirement, Needs, Looks

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Our fiat currency is under increasing stress with our large and growing trade deficits. We have a federal deficit that is calculated in the trillions when we take into account the net present value of the future Social Security and Medicaid obligations we are creating today.

  George Noory

  Stress, Creating, Growing

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• ...By combining a popular hatred of the class of entrepreneurs with the blow already given to social security by the violent and arbitrary disturbance of contract,... governments are fast rendering impossible a continuance of the social and economic order of the nineteenth century.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Blow, Government, Order

  John Maynard Keynes (1929). “The Economic Consequences of the Peace: The classic text on the Treaty of Versailles and post war Europe”, p.140, Harriman House Limited

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• I want to protect and preserve social security and Medicare.

  Dean Heller

  Want, Social, Medicare

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