Quotes
Robert Olague, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
“We want to protect Medicare beneficiaries and remind them their benefits aren’t changing, and the marketplace doesn’t require them to do anything differently.”
Henry J. Aaron – Brookings Institute Senior Fellow, Economic Studies
The debt ceiling is the fiscal equivalent of the human appendix — a law with no discoverable purpose. It is one law too many. Once Congress has set tax rates and spending levels, it has effectively said what it wants…
President Ronald Reagan
“I have wondered at times what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress.”
John D. Rockefeller
“I believe in the dignity of labor, whether with head or hand; that the world owes no man a living but that it owes every man an opportunity to make a living.”
Carolyn W. Colvin, Acting Commissoner of Social Security
(Commenting on the recent awarding of Research Grants) “Through these grants, we plan to improve our understanding of how to best educate individuals in minority and low-income communities and prepare them for a more secure financial future.”
Henry Ford
“Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
“A Nation’s strength lies in the well being of its people. The social security program plays an important part in providing for families, children, and older persons in time of stress, but it cannot remain static…”
President William Clinton
On Social Security: “Indeed it reflects our determination to move forward across generations and across the income divider in our country, as one America.”
President Ronald Reagan
“Government’s view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.”
Hubert H. Humphrey
It was once said that the Moral Test of government is how that government treats those in the dawn of life, the children; those in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those in the shadows of life, the sick,…