Diane Watson Quotes

Social Security is the widest accepted contract in our society.

Social Security is the most important social program in America.

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

Social Security works better than any other program in the world. Why dismantle it now?

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

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

Social Security has been effective for 70 years; prior predictions of its demise have been totally overstated.

When I look at Social Security, I consider it the most important social program in the United States, arguably the most successful program in the world.

Social Security is a promise that we cannot and must not break.

Social Security is meant to be - to make sure that no one who's worked hard and played by the rules and paid into the system grows old in poverty in America.

Social Security is unequivocally the one contract the country is overwhelmingly in favor of.

Social Security may be the most beloved of all the government's programs, partly because it requires so little thinking. You pay taxes while you work, then you and your spouse collect until you die.

Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.

I don't want to get people nervous falling off their chairs, but Social Security is a socialist program. It's a program by which the United States government has said that when you get old you should have a steady source of income.

Well, let's go back to the original intent of Social Security. It is an insurance contract.

The main purpose of Social Security is to redistribute wealth, to make an increasingly large number of Americans dependent on government for their basic needs in their retirement years.

I want to protect and preserve social security and Medicare.

What is the alternative to Social Security for those at the lower end of the income distribution whose personal savings by definition are not going to be that high? There really isn’t any.

Social Security and Medicare are among the best things about America.

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.

We got to fight to protect Social Security.

Social Security is fundamentally strong.

Social Security is not broke, and Social Security does not need to be privatized.

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

Social Security is an extremely complicated program.