Social Security Quotes - Page 3

• The result [Republicans winning the Senate] would be devastating for reproductive choice, the environment, civil liberties, Social Security and health care, as well as corporate accountability.

  Barbra Streisand

  Health, Winning, Choices

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• If you add up all the federal and you look at the disability and the unemployment and the Social Security and the state, my tax rate's 62, 63 percent. So I've got to make some decisions on what I'm going to do.

  Phil Mickelson

  Decision, Add, Unemployment

  "Phil Mickelson may quit golf due to rising taxes". www.sbnation.com. January 21, 2013.

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• Its hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

  Bill Delahunt

  Integrity, Financial, Social

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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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• I think the Democrats are going to have to be willing to give up, maybe, some short-term political gain by whipping up fears on some of these things - if it's a reasonable Social Security proposal, a reasonable Medicare proposal. We've got to deal with these things. You cannot have health care devour the economy.

  William J. Clinton

  Giving Up, Thinking, Political

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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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• 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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• The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our involvement in foreign conflicts and quarrels that were never our concern.

  Amir Butler

  Reality, Security Systems, Democracy

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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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• Every generation faces a challenge. In the 1930s, it was the creation of Social Security. In the 1960s, it was putting a man on the moon. In the 1980s, it was ending the Cold War. Our generation's challenge will be addressing global climate change while sustaining a growing global economy

  Eileen Claussen

  War, Moon, Men

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• The Republican Party is a friend of Social Security the way Colonel Sanders was a friend of chickens.

  Charles Taylor Manatt

  Retirement, Party, Way

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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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• 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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• 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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• On issue after issue, the polls - and these are not snapshot polls; these are polls over a consistent period of time - show that most Americans share what one could call core liberal or progressive values: investment in health care and education over tax cuts; fair trade over free trade; corporate accountability over deregulation; environmental protection over laissez-faire policies; defending Social Security and Medicare over privatizing them; raising the minimum wage over eliminating it. The country prefers progressive alternatives to the failed policies of the conservative right.

  Katrina vanden Heuvel

  Country, Health, Cutting

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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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• The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.

  Bill Delahunt

  Sides, Debate, Social

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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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• It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label.

  Barack Obama

  Inspirational, Family, Retirement

  Daily Labor Report, Issues 169-189, Bureau of National Affairs, 2010.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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