Quotes
Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH)
(About cutting Social Security) “You don’t go after these programs. You find a way of responsibly paying for (them). You find a way to make sure their benefits are a little bit better.”
Donald Trump
“Social Security is here to stay. To be sure, we must reform it, root out the fraud, make it more efficient, and ensure that the program is solvent.”
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii)
“We understand that Social Security is family insurance; it’s family security.”
Star Parker – President, the Center for Urban Renewal and Education
“When most Americans feel the biggest threat facing us is big government, yet they do not want to take on the biggest factors driving the growth of government, we have got a problem.”
President Ronald Reagan
“It’s not unreasonable for people who paid into a system for decades to expect to get their money’s worth–that’s not an ‘entitlement’, that’s honoring a deal.”
Charles Dickens
“I will honor Christmas in my heart and try to keep it all the year.”
Norman Vincent Peale
“Christmas waves a magic wand over the world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.”
Dr. Benjamin Carson
“I have always been a student of history, and I have a very good sense of what happens when you forsake responsibilities, throw away your values and principles; the story always ends the same.”
Andrew G. Biggs – American Enterprise Institute
“The principal risk to retirement security today is Social Security’s insolvency. Talk of raising Social Security benefits before solvency is restored is irresponsible.” (Excerpt from statement before Senate Committee on Finance Subcommitee on Social Security)
Congressman Jame A. Himes (D-CT)
(Talking to Seniors): “It’s important that most of you who are on Medicare and Social Security know that these programs are not part of what you’re hearing with the exchanges with people having their health policies cancelled.”