Quotes
Richard Olague – Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
“We want to reassure Medicare beneficiaries that they are already covered, that their benefits aren’t changing and that the Marketplace doesn’t require them to do anything different,” says Richard Olague, spokesman for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. “Specifically, they…
President Herbert Hoover
“Blessed are the young, for they will inherit the national debt.”
Richard Johnson, Sr. Fellow at Urban Institute
“It’s striking how many people sign up in the month at which they reach the full retirement age. The fact the government has said 66 and 0 months is the retirement age really seems to resonate with people.”
Newt Gingrich, Former Speaker
“Since President Johnson we have been hiding the real size of our budget deficit by obscuring it with Social Security. We need to be honest and separate these two things and deal with them.”
Ross Perot
“The budget should be balanced, the treasury should be refilled, the public debt should be reduced and the arrogance of public officials should be controlled.”
President George W. Bush
“For someone looking to take on big issues, it didn’t get much bigger than reforming Social Security. I decided there was no better time to launch the effort than when I was fresh off reelection.”
President Jimmy Carter
“The Social Security Program. . .represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute.”
Senator Mitch McConnell (R/KY)
“We all know that Social Security is one of this country’s greatest success stories in the 20th century.”
Winston Churchill
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings: the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.”
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
“I would love to see a march on Washington that says “Save Our Social Security.”