Social Security Quotes - Page 16

• You know, 600,000 millionaires get a Social Security check every month. I think there's enough waste and inefficiency.

  Richard Lamm

  Thinking, Waste, Months

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• I feel very strongly that the Democratic Party has, in the past, been the party of the future. I think when you look at Social Security and Medicare, when you look at the civil rights movement, the women's movement, I think the Democratic Party has always been in the forefront of change.

  Richard Lamm

  Party, Past, Thinking

  CNN's "Inside Politics Weekend" with Jeanne Meserve, www.cnn.com. July 7, 1996.

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• The reality is that the workforce relative to the number of people retired has shrunk and today in America there are only 3.3 working Americans paying payroll taxes to support each individual currently retired and collecting Social Security taxes.

  John Shadegg

  Reality, Payroll Tax, Numbers

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• When one gets old and they are sick, there are not many things they can count on but they should be able to count on Social Security. Our seniors' retirement should never rely on the bull of political promises or the bear of the market.

  Barbara Mikulski

  Senior, Retirement, Sick

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• Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations.

  Cliff Stearns

  Retirement, Long, Generations

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• President Roosevelt, the author of Social Security, was the first to suggest that, in order to provide for the country's retirement needs, Social Security would need to be supplemented by personal savings accounts.

  John Doolittle

  Country, Retirement, Order

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• Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.

  John Shadegg

  Retirement, Thinking, Usa

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• Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.

  John Shadegg

  Retirement, Thinking, Elderly

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• Right now, too many women who reach retirement age find themselves widowed or single, relying on their Social Security check for over half of their income.

  Judy Biggert

  Retirement, Age, Income

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• Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.

  Kay Bailey Hutchison

  Country, Baby, Retirement

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• The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers under age 55 will have their promised retirement benefits cut.

  Mark Dayton

  Retirement, Cutting, Age

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• I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.

  Mary Landrieu

  Retirement, Opportunity, Effort

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• The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.

  Neal Boortz

  Retirement, Years, Numbers

  Neal Boortz (1998). “The Terrible Truth about Liberals”, p.77, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Let me be clear, the discussions about Social Security are not about the retirement security of those Americans who are 55 or older - the Social Security system for those folks 55 and over will not change in any way shape of form - no ifs, ands, or buts.

  Norm Coleman

  Change, Retirement, Ifs And

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• Our society has changed in unforeseeable ways since Social Security was created. For example, we are living longer, healthier, and more productive lives and while this is all great news, this has also placed added pressure on America's retirement system.

  Norm Coleman

  Retirement, America, Productive Life

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• I'm dubious about having Social Security put into the stock market. I think that we have gotten very far away from the idea that there's something sacrosanct about retirement investments.

  Ron Chernow

  Retirement, Thinking, Ideas

  "Frontline" Interview, www.pbs.org.

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• However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement security for all Americans by cutting guaranteed benefits by more than 40 percent, and risky private accounts won't make up for the loss of benefits for millions of Americans.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Retirement, Loss, Cutting

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• Today more people believe in UFOs than believe that Social Security will take care of their retirement.

  Scott D. Cook

  Retirement, Believe, People

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• America should meet its obligations in the form of Social Security, Medicare, our ability to pay our military, legally binding legislation that allows unemployment compensation, the judiciary, the federal court system, the federal prison system, all those kinds of things have to be paid for.

  Bill Johnson

  Military, America, Pay

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• A market that's as open as possible is the precondition for a successful economy, and a successful economy is the precondition to being able to pay for social security.

  Gerhard Schroder

  Successful, Pay, Able

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• We're not going to give tax breaks to billionaires and then cut back on the needs of our elderly or poor or kids or education. We're not going to privatize Social Security - in fact, we're going to strengthen it. We're going to provide quality education for every kid in America, from preschool through college. We have to take on these corporate leaders who are selling out the American people, whose allegiance is now much more to China than it is to the United States. If we have the courage to take these people on, I think we can overwhelm George W. Bush and his friends.

  Bernie Sanders

  Kids, Cutting, Thinking

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• How long do you want to wait until you start enjoying life? When you're sixty-five you get social security.

  Neil Simon

  Long, Enjoy Life, Waiting

  Neil Simon (1971). “The comedy of Neil Simon”, Random House Inc

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• These are the now-endangered markers of a civilized society: legally ordained minimum wages, child labor laws, workers safety and compensation laws, pure foods and safe drugs, Social Security, Medicare and rules that promote competitive markets over monopolies and cartels.

  Bill Moyers

  Children, Law, Safety

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• Social Security mess is another failed progressive policy.

  Jim DeMint

  Progressive, Social, Policy

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• The only way to save Social Security is to raise the retirement age.

  Rand Paul

  Retirement, Age, Way

  "We Are Live Blogging the GOP Presidential Debate in Colorado" by Kevin Drum, www.motherjones.com. October 28, 2015.

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