Quotes
Martin Luther King
“Why should there be hunger and privation in any land, in any city, at any table when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life?”
Pamela Villarreal, National Center for Policy Analysis
“As a senior fellow at NCPA, I believe that the AMAC has incorporated some of the basic ideals of what Social Security should look like into a plan that aims to put Social Security on better financial footing while encouraging…
Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp (R-MI)
“Regardless of political persuasion, there is growing understanding and acceptance that Medicare and Social Security are in financial peril, and our hearings have only underscored that reality. Given the bipartisan support for various reforms to these programs, there is no…
Grover Cleveland
“A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and of the people themselves.”
President Barack Obama
“To put us on solid ground, we should also find a bipartisan solution to strengthen Social Security for future generations. We must do it without putting at risk current retirees, the most vulnerable, or people with disabilities; without slashing benefits…
Jimmy Carter
“The Social Security program is a pact between workers and their employers that they will contribute to a common fund to ensure that those who are no longer part of the work force will have a basic income on which…
George H. W. Bush
“And there’s one thing I hope we will all be able to agree on. It’s about our commitments. I’m talking about Social Security. To every American out there on Social Security, to every American supporting that system today, and to…
Rep. Tim Huelskamp
‘With these two decisions, a very narrow 5-4 Court majority has substituted its personal preferences on marriage for the Constitutional decisions of the American people and their elected Representatives. In doing so, five activist justices have short-circuited the democratic process.”…
Senator Angus S. King, Jr. (I-ME)
“I remain hopeful that key areas of agreement on federal spending priorities will produce a bipartisan solution to help put our long term deficits on a lasting downward trajectory.” (Commenting at July 11, 2013 “Fix the Debt” event)
Gandhi
“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.”