Mick Mulvaney Quotes

I would love to see a march on Washington that says 'Save our Social Security'.

The Social Security disability fund is going belly up in 2016.

I welcome the Democrats' ideas on Social Security. I think it is very important to make a bipartisan reform.

Despite the state of denial exhibited by most Democrats, Americans all across the nation acknowledge that changes are necessary to preserve Social Security for today's younger workers.

Currently, more than 4.7 million African Americans receive Social Security benefits, and nearly 8 million people with disabilities depend on Social Security for their daily sustenance.

I will work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to preserve the Social Security promise that provides secure retirement benefits for all, especially those who are most at risk such as widows, orphans, and people with disabilities when the need arises.

I believe that as a nation we must have a bipartisan discussion about how to best preserve and protect Social Security for our seniors and for future generations of Americans.

You can be sure that I will always consider how changes to Social Security will impact people with disabilities when considering the various proposals offered for reform.

The real sin with Social Security is that it's a long-term rip-off and a short-term scam.

I wish that the Democrats would put some effort into Social Security reform, illegal immigration's reform, tax reform, or some of the other real issues that are out there.

Our Hispanic community needs to understand how important the Social Security system is for not only its retired citizens, but also its disabled workers.

Ultimately I think what people care about, particularly on an issue like Social Security, is not really what's right and what's left but what's right and what's wrong.

I don't understand the Democrats' approach to Social Security in this country, and I'm not alone.

Journalists have to be optimists. When you interview somebody on Social Security reform, you have got to believe that Social Security can be reformed.

We are going to stand and fight to kill the privatizing approach [to Social Security.]

While the feds … leave Social Security off their books, the government's obligation to make benefit payments to current and near-term Social Security recipients is certainly no less real than its obligation to pay interest on its Treasury bonds.

Free board, dwelling, support and care in his old age, sickness and infirmity ….an annual sum of maintenance for him or herself, children and relatives.

When the social security age was first established as 65, most people didn't live to be that old.

What should we do with this projected surplus? I have a simple four-word answer: Save Social Security first.

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

All the Social Security Trust Fund Money Is Gone!

There is no prospect that today's younger workers will receive all the Social Security and Medicare benefits currently promised them.

GOLDWATER SETS GOAL: END SOCIAL SECURITY

In advanced age, and in cases of disability from accident, natural infirmity or any other cause, the individual shall be supported by the colony, and receive every comfort which kindness can administer

The Republicans opposed Social Security in 1933 when President Roosevelt first put it in. They didn’t want it then and they do not want it now. I would not want anyone’s grandmother to be reading the Wall Street stock market pages to figure out how she might earn more than the staff of the Social Security Administration.