James T. Walsh Quotes

Medicare and Social Security have created the healthiest and most financially secure generation of senior citizens in American history.

I never need to go far if I need a reminder of how important Medicare and Social Security are to Missouri's seniors. My mom, Betty Anne, is one of millions for whom these services provide a reliable safety net. Across the country, these protections are an integral part of sustaining millions of seniors' health and dignity.

It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.

Social Security is at last on the nation's front burner.

I am proposing that every person over sixty-five years of age be spared the darkness of sickness without hope.

I'll always stand up for America's seniors so they can age with dignity.

I will not rest until seniors get the cost-of-living adjustments they have earned and we lower the cost of prescription drugs.

Let's protect our social security and Medicare.

As a member of the Aging Committee, I'm no stranger to fighting for America's seniors.

I think we will begin to see some real efforts made to do things like protecting Social Security and Medicare.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.

Americans count on the guaranteed benefits they paid for under Medicare.

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.

I'm gonna keep Social Security without change, except I'm going to get rid of the waste, fraud, and abuse; same thing with Medicare.

I want to protect and preserve social security and Medicare.

Social Security, for example - I'm 43. I've paid into the system. You know what? That money has been stolen from me. I know that my parents who are on Social Security - they've got to continue to receive it. They're dependent on it. It is their primary source of income.

Social Security, a critically important, great program which does serve as the cornerstone of support for senior citizens, now faces challenges that threaten its long-term stability and well-being. The facts are there. The facts are crystal clear.

Before Social Security existed, about half of America's senior citizens lived in poverty.

My 80-year-old mother will not buy her heart medicine because it cost more than she can pay with social security. She is America.

Social Security and Medicare represent promises made and we must keep these commitments.

Old age security is welfare for the aged.

The prosperity of a country is in accordance with its treatment of the aged.

Social Security is the widest accepted contract in our society.

A law providing for the payment of a pension of $50 per month to every needy person over sixty years of age who has lived in the State of California three years prior to the date of the coming into effect of the law.