Quotes
Laurence Kotlikoff, Boston University
“Social Security, as I’ve belabored, is an impossibly complicated system, forcing most new retirees to consider thousands of options to find the one that maximizes their lifetime benefits.”
Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.)
“The conversation about retirement and Social Security benefits isn’t a conversation just about math. … It’s about our values. We support the right of every person to retire with dignity.”
Roger Ailes, Fox News Chairman and CEO
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Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK)
“I believe keeping our promises should be our highest priority and that means saving Social Security and Medicare while preserving the American dream for our children and grandchildren.”
Congressman Pete Sessions (R-TX)
“Social Security needs to be reformed to address its deficits. Congress should work to preserve benefits that those at or near retirement have planned their lives around, while guaranteeing future generations have the ability to plan for their eventual retirement.”
DEAN BAKER, Co-Dir. Center for Economic & Policy Research
“Social Security plays an important role in stabilizing the economy during a downturn. It maintains a flow of income to a group of people who will overwhelmingly spend it…sustaining demand and consumption.”
President George W. Bush
“Social Security has been the third rail of American politics. Grab ahold of it, and you’re toast. I did more… I hugged it. It is unfair to make a generation of young people pay into a system that’s going broke.”
Winston Churchill
“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
Congressman Lindsey Graham (R-SC)
“If Medicare and Social Security are not structurally changed, they’re not going to survive.”
President Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution, that must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.”