James T. Walsh Quotes

It's hard to exaggerate the importance of preserving the financial integrity of Social Security.

Our country also hungers for leadership to ensure the long-term survival of our Social Security system. With 70 million baby boomers in this country on the verge of retirement, we need to take action to shore up the system.

But there is a need to explore ways we can preserve the promise of Social Security for future generations.

We must ensure that today's seniors' benefits are rock solid and find a solution that fixes Social Security for the next generation that is just entering the workforce.

The president's claim that Social Security is going broke is misleading at best. The sky is not falling, although there is no doubt that the system needs to be strengthened.

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

If you can't even acknowledge that you have to fix Social Security, that's not a very good starting point.

We must level with the people and explain to them that Social Security will first face funding problems in 2042 that can be fixed now with changes that do not undermine and ultimately drain from the entire program.

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.

We must work together to save and strengthen Social Security not just for my father's generation but also for my daughters' generation.

While Social Security faces some long-term challenges, the system is not in crisis.

One poll shows that by 61 percent to 29 percent Americans under 40 say that Social Security needs to be fixed.

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

Social Security is a Ponzi scheme and the biggest threat to our democracy.

We must work hard to ensure that Social Security remains solvent for future generations.

I am dedicated to making sure Social Security will be there for future generations and have written legislation to strengthen the program.

Specifically, I am concerned about the long-term condition of Social Security. I am committed to ensuring that current beneficiaries and those nearing retirement face no reduction in benefits, while preserving this vital program for future generations.

To me, it is clear that the Social Security program is constitutional.

Without significant reform, the Social Security Administration will be legally and financially unable to pay full promised benefits within a generation.

Small changes done now would preserve Social Security at full benefit.

Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.

The reason to deal with Social Security is that it is a system where we have a tradition and history of making sure it is solidly funded for 75 years. At the moment, we look out and we see it is solidly funded until 2037.

We need to strengthen and save Social Security for today's workers. If we don't act now, this system, born out of the New Deal, will become a bad deal.

You know, Floridians, we've paid into Social Security. Like a lot of other government programs, we sent money to D.C. We expect to get that money back. We expect that our Social Security is real. So, we have to fix Social Security.