Social Security Quotes - Page 14

• Let us be clear about our choice. When we raise taxes on the wealthiest Americans, no one dies. When we cut Social Security and Medicare, people die.

  Annabel Park

  Cutting, People, Choices

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• Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.

  Chaka Fattah

  Senior, African American, Poverty

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• But I'm saying we are loosing the people who are going to pay my social security. And that bothers me.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Stupid, Humorous, People

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• These smugglers, many of them present in trafficking through my State of Arizona, create false Social Security cards, false green cards, visas and a variety of other fraudulent documents as an essential part of their smuggling activities.

  John Shadegg

  Essentials, Cards, Green

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• Social Security is inherently unsound for the simple reason that it's a political program run by politicians for political purposes...Social Security operates on a very simple principle: the politicians take your money from you and squander it.

  Harry Browne

  Running, Simple, Political

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• The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

  Max Baucus

  Shapes, Today, Facts

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• I think we'll build a consensus for action on Social Security reform which will reduce that long-term unfunded obligation and put the system on a sustainable basis.

  John W. Snow

  Thinking, Long, Reform

  "Treasury Secretary Snow Optimistic on Economy". "PBS NewsHour" with Jim Lehrer, www.pbs.org. March 23, 2005.

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• Spending when the math's not there and the numbers aren't there and if they look in the social security trust fund, it's filled with IOUs because the government's been pilfering it for years on end. We have to do something. We have to start having this discussion.

  Ben Quayle

  Math, Government, Years

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• You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform.

  Steve Israel

  Impact, People, Reform

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• Yes, prudently invested contributions to the Social Security fund may bring greater dividends, but those contributions would also face a greater risk. It would be like gambling. We should not gamble with the investments and the future of the citizens of this land.

  Daniel Inouye

  Land, Gambling, Risk

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• The reality is that the Republicans twice had Mitt Romney as a potential nominee. They chose him in 2008 - 2012. In 2008 and 2012, he had been the most get tough on illegal immigrants, on undocumented immigrants, illegals, as he called them, accused John McCain of wanting to give them Social Security checks, accused Mike Huckabee selling out to them with the DREAM Act in Arkansas, was really the most strident.

  Mark Shields

  Dream, Reality, Giving

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• Social security, bank account, and credit card numbers aren't just data. In the wrong hands they can wipe out someone's life savings, wreck their credit and cause financial ruin.

  Melissa Bean

  Data, Numbers, Hands

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• I have never favored a Social Security retirement age of 70 nor do I favor one of 68.

  Howard Dean

  Retirement, Age, Favors

  "Dean Misspeaks About Social Security Retirement Age". Interview with Associated Press, www.foxnews.com. August 7, 2003.

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• The way to balance the budget is for Congress to cut Social Security, move the retirement age to 70, cut defense, Medicare and veterans pensions, while the states cut almost everything else. It would be tough but we could do it.

  Howard Dean

  Retirement, Moving, Cutting

  Interview with Bob Schieffer, www.cbsnews.com. September 29, 2003.

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• As you know, Social Security functions under the premise that today's workers will help finance benefits for retirees and that these workers will then be supported by the next generation of workers paying into the same system.

  Steve Israel

  Generations, Benefits, Today

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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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• If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back of the queue for government money - health, social security, defence, pensions were all way ahead. And each of those areas - sports, the arts, the lottery - got relatively petty cash from the government.

  John Major

  Sports, Art, Government

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