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Social Security, all public and no option, rescued older Americans from living their final years in poverty.


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REP. SUE MYRICK Social Security is truly a test of our values as Americans. Social Security is a fundamental promise...
SENATOR JOHN KERRY It's time to stop the raid on the Social Security trust fund and start allowing Americans to inv...
MIKE PENCE The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number ...
NEAL BOORTZ Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 mi...
CHAKA FATTAH Today's older Americans are very different from their grandparents, living longer with lower rates o...
LOUIS KINCANNON With or without a Social Security fix, Americans don't have enough assets to retire on. There has to...
FRANK KEATING Social Security is the very foundation of retirement security for millions of Americans.
SUE KELLY Republicans are hoping no one will notice their rapid retreat from the issue of Social Security.
JASON FURMAN All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citize...
STEVE KING Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.
BERNIE SANDERS A majority of Americans support Social Security and Medicare, a progressive tax system and a governm...
ADAM DAVIDSON Cynically but accurately put, Americans oppose public intervention or regulation if it helps others,...
JON MEACHAM Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their ta...
CLAUDE PEPPER Age-based retirement arbitrarily severs productive persons from their livelihood, squanders their ta...
NORMAN VINCENT PEALE In 1935, the year Social Security was created, the poverty rate for seniors was over 70%.
JOHN DELANEY All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior ci...
STEVE KING I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at o...
TAMMY DUCKWORTH Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
CHAKA FATTAH Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying ey...
LUIS GUTIERREZ Rural Americans need to read the fine print in President Bush's plan to privatize Social Security,
BOB ETHERIDGE In my opinion, real reform, which lowers costs and ensures all Americans get the quality, affordable...
JARED POLIS Let me tell you exactly what we would do on Social Security. Yes, we'd raise the retirement age ...
CHRIS CHRISTIE Imagine if there were no Social Security COLA and today's 47 million Social Security beneficiaries h...
WILLIAM NOVELLI Sept. 11 made Americans aware of our national security vulnerability, and there is a good chance tha...
ANDREW KOHUT Americans should be able to enjoy a secure retirement after a lifetime of hard work. But too many Am...
THOMAS E. PEREZ The Bush Administration claims there is a Social Security crisis only to distract Americans from its...
MARK DAYTON The vice president is again raising the specter of Social Security to frighten senior citizens, ... ...
JOHN MCCAIN Americans no longer look to government for economic security; rather, they look to their portfolios.
BILL OWENS Our constituents paid into Social Security, and they want it paid back to them when they retire. Cut...
DENNIS CARDOZA I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good ...
JON MEACHAM AARP believes the millions of older Americans and their families will be helped by this legislation,...
BILL NOVELLI We can preserve Social Security benefits for generations of Americans without privatizing this impor...
RICHARD NEAL The best way to celebrate Social Security's birthday would be to enact legislation that ensures Amer...
JIM MCCRERY However, the Administration's plan to privatize Social Security will undermine retirement securi...
RUBEN HINOJOSA The commission has agreed not to add further exceptions besides reasons of public security and order...
MALCOLM HARBOUR Those who want to cut Social Security are prepared to take hostages, manufacture crises, and use sca...
TED DEUTCH Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were so...
JOHN SHADEGG The president's proposal would reduce benefits for people living on Social Security and subject what...
JASON FURMAN There are no quick fixes to Indigenous poverty and social disaster.
MALCOLM FRASER No one will be forced to take the public option. The word option means choice.
VALERIE JARRETT Many couples choose not to marry so that they may preserve their social security, pension, and veter...
RAND HOCH You don't keep real confidence in the economy when you hear that the Social Security system is going...
THOMAS MANN (POLITICAL ANALYST) Social Security is important to the economic survival of African Americans and other people of color...
HILARY SHELTON Until the president and the Republican leadership agree that their misguided attempt to privatize So...
HARRY REID I am staunchly committed to ensuring the long-term solvency of Social Security and preserving full b...
SUE KELLY When President Roosevelt signed Social Security into law in 1935, 65 percent of African Americans na...
TA-NEHISI COATES Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media c...
HERMAN CAIN We want to develop innovative ways to promote savings so more Americans can save for their future, b...
DEBBIE STABENOW Imagine a country where the vast majority of seniors live in poverty, a country where for many there...
JOHN DELANEY I'm two years older than him, and I cannot fathom living like that.
EMILY MIMNAUGH The curious thing is Americans don't mind individual mandates when they come in the form of payr...
ROBERT REICH Under no circumstances will I vote to spend one penny of the Social Security trust fund on anything ...
TOM DELAY This nation is about to be hit with a tidal wave of new retirees. In just six years, the baby boomer...
KENT CONRAD Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media c...
HERMAN CAIN People are very insecure. It's a common thread, ... All of these people have security questions in s...
JAMES CLYBURN The difference between one person who is living in poverty and another person living in wealth is th...
SUNDAY ADELAJA At their core, Americans all want the same basic things: a quality education for their children, a g...
RUBEN HINOJOSA Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge...
JIM SENSENBRENNER Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elder...
MARK FOLEY The Social Security numbers on the packages had no formatting that would make them stand out, and no...
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BIBLE Social Security ? that?s all I have.
HARRY WATSON We cannot overstate the sacrifice our military personnel - all volunteers - are making to ensure the...
CARL LEVIN I went from living my life anonymously for 58 years to being a public figure known globally in a mat...
CHESLEY SULLENBERGER Our goals for this nation must be nothing less than to double the size of our economy and bring pros...
JACK KEMP Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Ame...
TED DEUTCH Bush is no longer in command the way he used to be. With Social Security, he picked the one issue th...
GUILLAUME PARMENTIER For complicated historical and political reasons, we associate 'poor' in our public consciou...
J. D. VANCE I have always been really troubled by the amount of poverty in America. Americans are matched in the...
MATTHEW DESMOND The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future workers un...
MARK DAYTON Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to impleme...
PETE SESSIONS The American public needs help from the employers, help from the government to save. They're very co...
DALLAS SALISBURY The debate over Social Security should not be about how much we can cut from the program in order to...
SHERROD BROWN We can no longer tolerate handling prisoners in public hallways and restrooms for safety and securit...
BOB RICHARDSON People pay a lot of attention to their Social Security statements.
ANN COMBS Sent from my Coleco Adam
ROGER KIBBE The 1993 Social Security tax penalizes seniors who have planned for their retirement through savings...
ROB SIMMONS Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
EDGAR WATSON HOWE Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.
E. W. HOWE [Americans are living longer: An estimated 1.2 million will be 100 or older by 2050.] You're going t...
GENE COHEN Native Americans' families experience living surrounded, living in increasingly small reservatio...
JOSHUA OPPENHEIMER By requiring that any surplus in Social Security taxes be returned to the American people in persona...
MIKE PENCE People in third world countries aren't living in poverty, they're living pretty much as nature inten...
JAMES PERRIN The fine print in the President's Social Security proposal is that all present and future worker...
MARK DAYTON Mugabe has no option but to go.
MORGAN TSVANGIRAI Law-abiding Americans deserve to know that their government will not secretly tap their phones, read...
RALPH NEAS Social issues have been used to distract Americans from their own self interests since Nixon's s...
DEBORAH KASS Because Social Security is specifically designed to boost the retirement income of low earners with ...
GRACE NAPOLITANO From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be requir...
WAYNE ALLARD My high-school years were so mediocre - I moved out when I was 16 and started living with my girlfri...
JASON REITMAN poverty and exclusion conspire against peace, security and democracy.
ALEJANDRO TOLEDO I made my mistakes, but in all my years of public life, I have never profited from public service. I...
RICHARD M. NIXON Adam was pleased with his race, he held on much longer than in the Olympic final.
GRAHAM BARTON The bottom line is Americans are living longer in retirement, saving less or not at all. They live b...
GEORDIE CROSSAN From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be re...
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CHAPMAN COHEN You and I do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.
HERB COHEN The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense ...
LEONARD COHEN