Social Security Quotes - Page 2

• It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.

  Fred Upton

  People, Benefits, Might

  "Super Congress Deficit Committee Member Fred Upton: No Cuts To Social Security Benefits" by Elise Foley, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 18, 2011.

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• It will take hard work, but doing nothing on Social Security, for example, simply makes sure the system will go broke. It's time to make some reforms.

  Joni Ernst

  Hard Work, Example, Reform

  Source: hotair.com

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• Funding privatized accounts with Social Security dollars would not only make the program's long term problems worse, but many believe it represents a first step toward undermining the program's fundamental goals.

  Patty Murray

  Believe, Long, Goal

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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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• You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your f**kin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.

  George Carlin

  Running, Retirement, Jobs

  "Life Is Worth Losing". Documentary, Comedy, 2005.

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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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• What I heard was that Bush is now positioned to have victory after victory. He'll have Social Security reform passed, that he'll have tax reform passed, that he'll have conservative judges on the courts.

  Pat Robertson

  Judging, Victory, Reform

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• We want to make sure that Social Security is fixed for those people who have had that promise and there's something in the future for our younger workers. And we're not about to do a welfare program.

  Dennis Hastert

  Welfare Programs, People, Promise

  "Transcript: House Speaker Dennis Hastert". "Your World with Neil Cavuto", www.foxnews.com. May 12, 2005.

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• I'm going to spend a lot of time on Social Security. I enjoy it. I enjoy taking on the issue. I guess, it's the mother in me.

  George W. Bush

  Mother, Issues, Social

  "Texas Oilman Charged in Oil-for-Food Scandal; Bush Addresses Newspaper Editors". "Live From...", www.cnn.com. April 14, 2005.

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• I think every program needs to stand the sunshine of righteous scrutiny. Whether it's Social Security, whether it's Medicaid, whether it's Medicare.

  Rick Perry

  Sunshine, Thinking, Needs

  "Rick Perry Newsweek Interview on Federalism, Medicare, and 2012 Race". www.thedailybeast.com. August 12, 2011.

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• All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens

  Steve King

  Senior, Citizens, Guarantees

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• Everything [Ronald Reagan] got, the tax cuts, he had Democrats outnumbering him in the House and Senate everywhere. There were certain realities that he faced. But the biggest tax increase on Social Security was authored by none other than Bill Clinton.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Cutting, Reality, House

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop.

  Ronald Reagan

  Long, People, Political

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.1157, Best Books on

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• Finding the Russian scientists may be a problem being that Russia does not have a Social Security System, as here in America, that allows us to monitor, track down and capture an American citizen.

  Colin Powell

  Russia, Security Systems, America

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• We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.

  John Thune

  Daughter, Mother, Father

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• The true enemies of Social Security and Medicare are those who defend an imploding status quo.

  Mitch Daniels

  Enemy, Challenging The Status Quo, Social

  Keynote Speech to the Conservative Political Action Committee, delivered 11 February 2011, Ronald Reagan Centennial Dinner, Washington, D.C.

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• The Presidents plan to privatize Social Security would actually take away guaranteed benefits and put the promise of a secure retirement in jeopardy.

  Patty Murray

  Retirement, Promise, President

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• I care about our young people, and I wish them great success, because they are our Hope for the Future, and some day, when my generation retires, they will have to pay us trillions of dollars in social security

  Dave Barry

  People, Wish, Dollars

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• Consider Social Security. The young have always contributed to the support of the old. Earlier, the young helped their own parents out of a sense of love and duty. They now contribute to the support of someone else's parents out of compulsion and fear. The voluntary transfers strengthened the bonds of the family; the compulsory transfers weaken those bonds.

  Milton Friedman

  Support, Parent, Liberty

  Milton Friedman, William Richard Allen (1983). “Bright promises, dismal performance: an economist's protest”, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich Inc.

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• I was sixty-six years old. I still had to make a living. I looked at my social security check of 105 dollars and decided to use that to try to franchise my chicken recipe. Folks had always liked my chicken.

  Colonel Sanders

  Years, Trying, Dollars

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• Many seniors understand that Social Security is social insurance as opposed to a program where we put money aside for our own retirement. But most elderly individuals think they're getting their money back. So it isn't selfishness as much as a misunderstanding.

  Richard Lamm

  Senior, Retirement, Thinking

  "Lamm on the Line". Interview With Peter Doskoch, www.psychologytoday.com. September 1, 1996.

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• My grandmother lived to be 100 years old. Her grandmother was a slave, yet she was a college graduate in the Spellman class of 1917. She taught art for 50 years and she saved her Social Security checks for her children's education.

  Spike Lee

  Art, Children, Grandmother

  "Spike Lee Interview IF GOD IS WILLING AND DA CREEK DON'T RISE". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 19, 2010.

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• Will some reporter, or some Republican on the Sunday shows, please ask why tax cuts raid the non-existent Social Security Trust Fund but all the Democrats' new spending doesn't? Will someone please ask that?

  Rush Limbaugh

  Trust, Cutting, Sunday

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• The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

  Mitch McConnell

  Government, Social, Paid

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• We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

  Mitch McConnell

  Country, Stories, Social

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