Ginny Brown-Waite Quotes

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.

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

Social Security is fundamentally strong.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Social Security is a program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

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

Social Security is the widest accepted contract in our society.

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

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

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.

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

The country will also need 'new forms of social welfare' instead of its current system which is excessively centred on pensions.

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.

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.

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.

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