Social Security Quotes - Page 12

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Do I want Social Security to be there for my kids and my grandkids? Absolutely. Will I fight like a tiger to make sure that we protect Social Security? I absolutely will.

  Claire McCaskill

  Kids, Fighting, Want

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• 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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• We have a president who apparently loves instability and revolution, and that is the antithesis of those two words, Social Security.

  Glenn Beck

  Two, President, Revolution

  "Beck:'We Have A President Who Apparently Loves Instability and Revolution'". www.mediamatters.org. February 23, 2011.

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• I think we need to make sure that we are putting Social Security on a sustainable path. It's absolutely something that the federal government is going to be involved in, in the future.

  Ken Buck

  Thinking, Government, Needs

  "Interview with Colorado Senate Candidate Ken Buck". Interview with John King, www.realclearpolitics.com. August 11, 2010.

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• We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out in favor of something privatized.

  Sharron Angle

  Favors, Needs, Phases

  "Approval Ratings Down, Reid In Re-Election Fight". Interview, www.npr.org. June 1, 2010.

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• I'd love to see a new form of social security ... everyone taught how to grow their own; fruit and nut trees planted along every street, parks planted out to edibles, every high rise with a roof garden, every school with at least one fruit tree for every kid enrolled.

  Jackie French

  School, Kids, Garden

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• Law and order is a social service. Crime and the fear which the threat of crime induces can paralyse whole communities, keep lonely and vulnerable elderly people shut up in their homes, scar young lives and raise to cult status the swaggering violent bully who achieves predatory control over the streets. I suspect that there would be more support and less criticism than today's political leaders imagine for a large shift of resources from Social Security benefits to law and order - as long as rhetoric about getting tough on crime was matched by practice.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Lonely, Home, Practice

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• Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits.

  Ginny Brown-Waite

  Security Systems, Benefits, Pay

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• For those who unfairly lump Social Security in with Bernie Madoff, in all fairness, you should point out the difference. No one was ever legally required to pay money to Madoff.

  Addison Wiggin

  Differences, Pay, Fairness

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• Urbanization is not about simply increasing the number of urban residents or expanding the area of cities. More importantly, it's about a complete change from rural to urban style in terms of industry structure, employment, living environment and social security.

  Li Keqiang

  Urbanization, Cities, Numbers

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• Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

  Diane Watson

  Generations, Social, Program

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• Millions of Americans have paid into social security and deserve their full benefits. Pure and simple, Republicans are manufacturing a social security crisis that does not exist in order to dismantle social security.

  Diane Watson

  Simple, Order, Doe

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• .......the truth is, while the FBI is hiding behind the 5th Amendment, the Unabomer is qualifying for Social Security as a terrorist. Beam me up, Mr. Speaker.

  James Traficant

  Politics, Truth Is, Hiding

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• From the moment we are born, the world tends to have a
  container already built for us to fit inside: A social security number, a gender, a race, a profession or an I.Q. I ponder if we are more defined by the container we are in, rather than
  what we are inside. Would we recognize ourselves if we could expand beyond our bodies?  Would we still be able to exist if we were authentically un-contained?

  Paige Bradley

  Race, Numbers, World

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• In fact, entitlement spending on programs such as Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security make up 54% of federal spending, and spending is projected to double within the next decade. Medicare is growing by 9% annually, and Medicaid by 8% annually.

  Jim Ryun

  Growing, Next, Facts

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• I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China. China didn't create Social Security, Medicare. China isn't spending a fifth of a billion dollars every hour that it doesn't have.

  Mark Steyn

  Thinking, Example, Dollars

  "Mark Steyn: RomneyCare Was A 'Technocratic Solution'". www.realclearpolitics.com. May 12, 2011.

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