Top 1200 Social Security Quotes & Sayings - Page 4

In 1935, the year Social Security was created, the poverty rate for seniors was over 70%.

Voters should be assured that I absolutely do not support raising the retirement age for Social Security.

Privatizing Social Security will take dollars out of young folks' pockets.

No one was elected to Congress because he or she promised to cut Social Security, Medicare or Medicaid.

Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.

We need to phase Medicare and Social Security out in favor of something privatized.

We must work hard to ensure that Social Security remains solvent for future generations.

Defending against military-strength malware is a real challenge for the computer security industry. Furthermore, the security industry is not global. It is highly focused in just a handful of countries. The rest of the countries rely on foreign security labs to provide their everyday digital security for them.

Almost half of all Latinas currently on Social Security rely exclusively on their benefit check in retirement.

Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.

I would like to invite the citizens of Great Britain and the citizens of the U.S. and the citizens of the world to come here and walk freely through the streets of Venezuela, to talk to anyone they want, to watch television, to read the papers. We are building a true democracy, with human rights for everyone, social rights, education, health care, pensions, social security, and jobs.

In other words, Social Security is every bit as insecure as the stock market.

There has to be a better, smarter way to authenticate who somebody is. Social Security numbers are floating out there everywhere.

Currently, 94 out of 100 of us pay the Social Security tax all year round.

Among seniors, Social Security is the sole source of income for 26 percent of nonmarried women.

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

We do ourselves a disservice when some of us cave to the myth that Social Security somehow drives the deficit.

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

Human beings have a drive for security and safety, which is often what fuels the spiritual search. This very drive for security and safety is what causes so much misery and confusion. Freedom is a state of complete and absolute insecurity and not knowing. So, in seeking security and safety, you actually distance yourself from the freedom you want. There is no security in freedom, at least not in the sense that we normally think of security. This is, of course, why it is so free: there's nothing there to grab hold of.

Social Security's not the hard one to solve. Medicare, that is the gorilla in the room, and you've got to put all of it on the table.

We cannot realize financial reconstruction and enhance social security without a strong economy.

Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.

Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments.

From the time I was 8 until now, I've been working. My Social Security is looking solid.

The real Social Security crisis is that the government does not have the money to redeem its IOUs.

We ought to deal with Social Security in a separate conversation that is not part of deficit reduction.

While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

I have never favored a Social Security retirement age of 70 nor do I favor one of 68.

Under the current pay-as-you-go Social Security system, not one person is actually guaranteed benefits.

Social Security is legally prohibited from contributing to the deficit. It cannot use debt to pay out benefits.

I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'.

Increasing the minimum wagewill put billions annually into the Social Security trust fund.

For these reasons, women tend to rely more heavily on Social Security in their retirement than do men.

The only real security for social well-being is the free exercise of men's minds.

When you run ads saying you are going to save social security, my friend, that's all hat and no cattle.

National security is a really big problem for journalists, because no journalist worth his salt wants to endanger the national security, but the law talks about anyone who endangers the security of the United States is going to go to jail. So, here you are, especially in the Pentagon. Some guy tells you something. He says that's a national security matter. Well, you're supposed to tremble and get scared and it never, almost never means the security of the national government. More likely to mean the security or the personal happiness of the guy who is telling you something.

The No. 1 issue with women in this country is jobs, and the No. 2 issue is our national security. So, economic security, national security and retirement security.

We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot.

Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.

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

All we have to do now is to inform the public that the payment of social security taxes is voluntary and watch the mass exodus.

No one in the government is seriously penalized when Social Security numbers are stolen and misused; only the number-holders suffer.

I think we can reform Social Security without raising taxes, which is better for economic growth.

Well, George W.Bush wanted to privatize Social Security. It's an ideological thing.

We must unequivocally reject any cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits.

We should be talking about expanding Social Security benefits - not cutting them.

Social Security is a secure way to find great pleasure in being terribly deceived.

I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

I support voluntary personal retirement accounts for Social Security. It should be people's free choice.

I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'

We have a president who apparently loves instability and revolution, and that is the antithesis of those two words, Social Security.

Raising the minimum wage means we have workers paying more in to support the Social Security system.

We can preserve Social Security benefits for generations of Americans without privatizing this important program.

If the economy is strained, then Social Security, like the rest of the government, will be, too.

I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

Small changes done now would preserve Social Security at full benefit.

I think we should worry about Social Security first and then tax cuts second.

I don't know what the hell I'm doing here. I'm 237 years old, I should be collecting social security.

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