Joe Miller Quotes

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.

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

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

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.

I've never said anything about privatizing Social Security.

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

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

I never sought to privatize Social Security.

What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.

Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.

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.

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

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.

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.

Our nation's Social Security Trust Fund is depleting at an alarming rate, and failure to implement immediate reforms endangers the ability of Americans to plan for their retirement with the options and certainty they deserve.

I don't support getting rid of Social Security.

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

It's critical - that the people that are benefiting today from Medicare and Social Security that they not see benefit reductions. It's awfully hard to tell someone who might be 82, that they've gotta go back to work, because their benefits are gonna be chopped. That's not gonna happen.

I know of no serious proposals that would change the way Social Security operates for today's seniors.

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

GOLDWATER SETS GOAL: END SOCIAL SECURITY

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

The debate over Social Security should not be about how much we can cut from the program in order to balance the federal budget. The debate over Social Security should not be about raising the retirement age or limiting benefits. The debate over Social Security should be about retirement security.

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

We got to fight to protect Social Security.