John W. Snow Quotes

And in terms of entitlement reforms, we have to save them from themselves, because if we don't reform social security and we don't reform Medicare, they're going to actually implode.

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

There is a need for Social Security reform to ensure its stability, and Congress must act.

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

I'm the guy that has written at great length about exactly how we should profoundly reform Social Security. If I were afraid of going after entitlements, I wouldn't have done that, I wouldn't have put Medicaid reform in this budget, I wouldn't have called for the reductions in spending, which people will scream about, but I think are necessary.

There is a lot of room for improvement in Social Security. We owe our children the most financially sound system possible. They will have paid into it their entire working lives. They deserve to be protected by it. for our children and grandchildren.

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

The Social Security trust fund is in pretty good shape today and we should not embark upon risky, dangerous schemes which will, in fact, undermine Social Security, such as privatization.

Social Security is not just another government spending program. It is a promise from generation to generation.

We must unequivocally reject any cuts to Social Security or Medicare benefits.

Social Security is fundamentally strong.

I look back to the Great Depression, and what Roosevelt was able to do in very difficult times, to get Social Security through back in the time when it was seen as - well, it wasn't what it is today. It was sort of a last-ditch, if you really need it, you got it, but, today, it's much more a part of your retirement program.

Social security isn’t a ponzi scheme. It’s not bankrupting us. It’s not an outrage. It is working.

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 to live. It represents our commitment as a society to the belief that workers should not live in dread that a disability, death, or old age could leave them or their families destitute.

Social security has enabled people to retire with dignity and overwhelmingly not be in poverty. We have to keep it solvent.

I just think that we ought to protect the Social Security fund.

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

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

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

The retirement age needs to be raised. A portion of Social Security ought to be privatized, if not all. And there probably needs to be some means testing. It's a Ponzi scheme that's not sustainable.

I oppose the president's plan to privatize Social Security.

We all know that Social Security is one of this country's greatest success stories in the 20th century.

A Congressional Budget Office report released as recent as June 2004 says the system will be able to pay full benefits until 2052, and 80 percent after that.

I am emphatically against the privatization of Social Security. It is going to hurt millions of American women, American families and ultimately the whole country.

In the early 1980s, I burned my Social Security card at the New Orleans Investment Conference in protest of the state pension system.