David Hoppe Quotes

We must work to stabilize Social Security. We must not gamble with our nation's social insurance program, one of our most popular and effective federal programs that has remained dependable and stable for the past 70 years.

Social Security is the widest accepted contract in our society.

It is not in accordance with the genius of our Government or our country to pay pensions.

The Social Security System is the one great social policy achievement of the twentieth century.

Social Security is fundamentally strong.

If we didn't have Social Security, our seniors would live mostly in poverty. You'd have another 18 million people in poverty.

Social Security has not contributed to the deficit problem.

I stand with the millions of seniors and working people who depend on Social Security and who expect the money they put in to be there for them when they retire.

The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.

When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.

I don't support getting rid of Social Security.

Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard and played by the rules and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America.

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.

We should stop having a conversation about cutting Social Security a little bit or a lot.

Social Security is a problem solving program, not a problem creating one .... Social Security is our best anti-poverty program.

Social Security is unequivocally the one contract the country is overwhelmingly in favor of.

All the Social Security Trust Fund Money Is Gone!

The payment of Social Security benefits under law have little or nothing to do with the fiscal resources available.

When you pay social security taxes, you are in no way making provision for your own retirement. You are paying the pensions of those who are already retired. Once you understand this, you see that whether you will get the benefits you are counting on when you retire depends on whether Congress will levy enough taxes, borrow enough, or print enough money...

Social Security works better than any other program in the world. Why dismantle it now?

Only 44 percent of Social Security beneficiaries perceive themselves to have benefitted from a government social program.

Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid account for half the Federal spending.

Social Security is the most important social program in America.

Without Social Security benefits, more than 40 percent of Americans 65 years and older would live below the federal poverty line. Even more striking is that Social Security is the only source of retirement income for almost a quarter of elderly beneficiaries.