(360 quotes found)
“Having a pension and Social Security [combined with private savings] allows most households to live as well after retirement as they did before. If you don't have a pension, you'll have to tighten your belt in retirement.”
Alicia Munnell
“Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.”
Bill Frist
“It's obviously huge if they allow individuals to invest some portion of their Social Security.”
Bill Dougherty
“I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country.”
Barbara Mikulski
“The national debate on Social Security has been cheapened by demagoguery on all sides.”
Bill Delahunt
“I wouldn't turn my back on this man, ... especially given his support for privatizing Social Security and replacing it with a national lottery.”
Eric Rasmussen
“This is a celebration not just of passage of act but everything Social Security has done for past 70 years, ... Social Security is one of the hallmark programs of the New Deal era and I think it's important to remind people of the great structural reforms that took place during the Roosevelt era.”
David Woolner
“It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.”
“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
“Saving Social Security with Stock: The Promises Don't Add Up.”
Dean Baker
