Quotes
Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro (D-CT)
“Social Security has prevented over 50 percent of seniors from falling into poverty. However, women still face greater financial pressures, especially later in life. Seventy percent of the elderly in poverty are women.”
Congressman Gene Green (D-TX)
“I’m glad to hear that there will be another cost-of-living adjustment for seniors and beneficiaries next year. There are over 2.5 million Social Security beneficiaries over the age of 65 in Texas that depend on Social Security and for many…
Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii)
“Cutting Social Security is not the answer. In fact, strengthening and expanding Social Security is the answer.”
Congressman Joe Crowley (D-NY)
“This COLA increase is great news for seniors. For so many seniors in my district and nationwide, these benefits are a lifeline that they rely on.”
Congressman Ted Deutch (D-FL)
“Social Security’s financial foundation is strong, but it’s moral foundation is even stronger. Americans respect a hard day’s work and likewise believe that our retirees deserve a basic sense of dignity after a lifetime of hard work.”
Marlo Thomas, Award-winning actress and author
“There’s an old saying I learned during the early days of the feminist movement about women working together toward a common goal: One is a pest, two is a team, three is a coalition.”
Congressman Blake Farenthold (R-TX)
“The most important thing seniors and those close to retirement age should know is that any reforms to Medicare and Social Security that I have supported would not have affected their current benefits. We must never rip the rug from…
President Grover Cleveland
A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and of the people themselves.
Former Congresswoman Ginny Brown-Waite (R-FL)
Social Security is a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.
Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa)
“Let’s increase Social Security payments, and let’s do it in a way that helps people at the bottom more than those at the top.”