Social Security Quotes - Page 7

• If social security depresses savings rates, it is only because it is unfunded.

  Robert Kuttner

  Depressing, Saving, Social

  Robert Kuttner (1987). “The Economic Illusion: False Choices Between Prosperity and Social Justice”, p.77, University of Pennsylvania Press

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• In Washington, the U.S. House passed a bill unanimously. Every single member of both parties voted for it. What was it? To deny Social Security benefits to Nazis. So from now on, no SS for the SS.

  Craig Ferguson

  Party, House, Benefits

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• The fair (ph) transforms the process by which we fund Social Security and Medicare because the money paid in consumption is paid by everybody, including illegals, prostitutes, pimps, drug dealers, all the people that are freeloading off the system now.

  Mike Huckabee

  People, Drug, Pimp

  Mike Huckabee at GOP primary debate at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, www.washingtonpost.com. August 6, 2015.

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• Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.

  Chaka Fattah

  People, African American, Benefits

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• We began to temper Western democracy with what I'd call a social contract. We put in Social Security, graduated income tax, workers' compensation. We developed strong unions to negotiate with business owners so workers got an equitable share of the profits.

  John Shelby Spong

  Strong, Democracy, Unions

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• I am not a great fan of the payroll tax holiday because I'm nervous about what it does to the future of Social Security.

  Bernie Sanders

  Holiday, Payroll Tax, Fans

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• When you run ads saying you are going to save social security, my friend, that's all hat and no cattle.

  John McCain

  Running, Hats, Social

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• I'm really bad with trolls because I have a lot of really intense friends who are not necessarily doing things so legally. If I get trolled, [my friends will send me] an email with the person's Social Security number, phone number, pictures of his family, his business, his spouse. I see this person in his totality, and I feel so bad. I shouldn't have that power.

  Margaret Cho

  Phones, Numbers, Email

  "Don't Call Them Comediennes". Elle interview, www.elle.com. June 21, 2016.

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• We need to preserve programs like Social Security and Medicare for our seniors of today and tomorrow. But we need to strengthen both Social Security and Medicare to make sure these programs are still available for future generations.

  Joni Ernst

  Senior, Needs, Generations

  Source: hotair.com

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• What I think people should realize is that programs like Social Security, programs like Medicare, programs like the Veterans Administration, programs like your local park and your local library - those are, if you like, socialist programs; they're run by [and] for the public, not to make money. I think in many ways we should expand that concept so that the American people can enjoy the same benefits that people all over the world are currently enjoying.

  Bernie Sanders

  Running, Thinking, People

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• We'll have a national dispute - debate about it, and the goal should be to bring in - to help respectfully appeal to those voters that can make the difference, the ones who are not going to be entrepreneurs, are never going to be - run a - be a CEO in some big business, and they know it, but they would like to have their Social Security, they would like to have Medicare as they paid for all their years, and they'd like rising wages rather than falling wages.

  Jeff Sessions

  Running, Fall, Years

  Source: www.politico.com

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• Due to the major demographic changes we have gone through in the last few years in this country, we will be a majority/minority nation and there are a large number of people who do not like that. Donald Trump has tapped into those people's fears because he comes from the extreme right wing part of the Republican Party, as does Ted Cruz. They believe that we should cut taxes to wealthy Americans and enforce anti immigrant laws. They don't believe in Education or Social Security, they would end it and change it and privatize it.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Country, Party, Believe

  Source: ciudadweston.com

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• We don't need to do anything new. We simply need to protect Social Security so that when people reach a certain age and are no longer earning an income, they have a safety net through which they are not going to fall.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Fall, Safety, People

  Source: ciudadweston.com

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• Republicans are suggesting that you take your retirement money and invest it in the stock market to take care of yourself but that leaves you with choices that you may not know anything about. The purpose of social Security is that you don't fall through the crack and find yourself destitute.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Retirement, Fall, Choices

  Source: ciudadweston.com

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• The specific trigger for me was when the President [Barack Obama] put Medicare and Social Security on the chopping block. Why I got into the race - it just seemed unconscionable that the Democrats were leading the charge.

  Jill Stein

  Block, Race, President

  Source: www.pqmonthly.com

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• Hillary Clinton has pledged amnesty in her first 100 days, and her plan will provide Obamacare, Social Security, and Medicare for illegal immigrants, breaking the federal budget.

  Donald Trump

  Obamacare, Firsts, Amnesty

  "The lies Trump told this week: who's paying for the wall to immigration costs" by Alan Yuhas, www.theguardian.com. September 2, 2016.

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• Let's protect our social security and Medicare.

  Donald Trump

  Social, Medicare, Protect

  Donald Trump's immigration speech in Phoenix, Arizona, www.nytimes.com. September 1, 2016.

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• I don't believe there's a red state in America where people believe you should cut Medicare, Social Security and veterans' benefits rather than doing away with corporate tax loopholes.

  Bernie Sanders

  Believe, Cutting, America

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

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• The American people I talk to don't spend every moment thinking, 'How can I tax my neighbor more than they're being taxed?' They say, 'How can I get a good job? How can my kids get good jobs? How can seniors have a confidence in their future when they know that Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are bankrupt?'

  Mitt Romney

  Senior, Jobs, Kids

  "The Kudlow Report" with Larry Kudlow, www.cnbc.com. April 12, 2011.

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• I think changing the Democratic Party platform [at the convention] is a great place to start. It should include expanding Social Security, a $15 minimum wage, and breaking up too-big-to-fail banks on Wall Street - among other Sanders priorities.

  Ben Wikler

  Wall, Party, Thinking

  "What Should Bernie Sanders Do Next?". Interview with Josh Harkinson, www.motherjones.com. June 11, 2016.

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• There were times, though, when the women came together on a partisan basis. [When we stopped] the privatization of Social Security during George Bush, we linked arms.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Together, Arms, Social

  Interview with Brien Williams, digitalcommons.bowdoin.edu. May 4, 2010.

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• I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.

  Chaka Fattah

  Retirement, Widows And Orphans, People

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• While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

  Chaka Fattah

  Long, Challenges, Faces

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• Right now, with terrorism and poverty and Wall Street and Social Security having problems, nudity should not be the issue.

  Robin Thicke

  Wall, Issues, Poverty

  "Robin Thicke on That Banned Video, Collaborating with 2 Chainz and Kendrick Lamar, and His New Film". Interview with Stelios Phili, www.gq.com. May 6, 2013.

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• Of course we believe these things. We believe in social security. We believe in work for the unemployed. We believe in saving homes. Cross our hearts and hope to die! We believe in all these things. But we do not like the way that the present administration is doing them. Just turn them over to us. We will do all of them, we will do more of them, we will do them better and, most important of all, the doing of them will not cost anybody anything!

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Believe, Home, Heart

  Franklin D. Roosevelt's Address at the Democratic State Convention, Syracuse, New York, September 29, 1936.

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