Gina Raimondo Quotes

It has to have a payroll tax that's dedicated to Social Security. The Social Security tax has been very successful over the years in raising almost all of our elderly citizens out of poverty.

Since 1935, this has been a pay-as-you-go system, and I always believed when I first started talking about Social Security that there was a little box that had my name on it and it had my benefits for when I retired. That is not true.

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

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.

You can look at history of these things, and Social Security wasn't devised to be a system that supported you for a 30-year retirement after a 25-year career... So there will be things that, you know, the retirement age has to be changed, maybe some of the benefits have to be affected, maybe some of the inflation adjustments have to be revised.

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.

Today, I'm 60, I'm not married, I don't have any kids. I would give up some Social Security to save a system that Americans are going to depend on now and in the future.

I don't support getting rid of Social Security.

I never sought to privatize Social Security.

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.

Americans need accurate information in order to consider Social Security reform. Too bad the media can't be counted upon to provide it.

Indeed, I think most Americans now know that in 1935 when Social Security was created, there were some 42 Americans working for every American collecting retirement benefits.

GOLDWATER SETS GOAL: END SOCIAL SECURITY

With more than half of the American workforce without private pension coverage, Social Security provides economic certainty within a system that is fair, equitable, and easy to understand. You work hard, pay into the system, and the federal government makes a promise to pay back your earned benefits when you retire. It's that simple.

Never once have I thought that Social Security would be something that would ever be available to me.

A lifetime single worker really gets a horrid deal from Social Security. The return on average is less than 0.5 percent. These workers would be nearly better off stuffing their payroll tax dollars under a mattress.

Voters should be assured that I absolutely do not support raising the retirement age for Social Security.

We ought to look at Social Security. We ought to ask ourselves the question, is there inherently something wrong with Social Security that a man like me is eligible for Social Security? There's something wrong with the system.

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

Social Security is a social insurance program - it is not designed to be the same thing as a 401(k).

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

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

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

I agree that we must expand opportunities for retirement saving, but we must not undermine this worthy effort with a flawed privatization scheme that takes the 'security' out of Social Security.

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