Quotes
Maurice Chevalier
“Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.”
Congressman Timothy Murphy, PhD (R-PA)
“The federal government’s approach to mental health has been a chaotic patchwork of antiquated programs and ineffective policies across numerous agencies. Sadly, patients end up in the criminal justice system or on the streets because services are not available.”
Dr. Ben Carson
“Every American…must distinguish those who represent the free enterprise system based on personal responsibility and equal treatment from those who are willing to give away our personal freedom in order to enhance the size and shape of the government.”
Senator Carl Levin (D-MI)
“While it is clear we need to make some adjustments to protect Social Security for the long term, it is disingenuous to say that the trust fund is facing a crisis.”
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
“Government includes the act of formulating a policy and persuading, leading, sacrificing, teaching always, because the greatest duty of a statesman is to educate.”
President Ronald Reagan
“Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we’ve ever known.”
Kristin Lupfer, Proj. Dir., SSA’s Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services
“People are not getting rich off SSDI benefits. It’s definitely a myth that getting by on benefits is easy.”
Bruce Springsteen, American musician and song-writer
“It’s not the time of your life, but the life you put into your time.”
U.S. Representative Bruce Braley (D-IA)
“Protecting Social Security is vitally important for the tens of thousands of Iowa seniors who rely on these programs for secure retirement…we should strengthen these programs, not undermine them.”
Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
“We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today’s workers. If we don’t act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.”