Todd Akin Quotes

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

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 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 was always supposed to be basically in theory an insurance program where you pay in and then you get out.

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

People have less health care and less retirement benefits than they had 10 years ago.

From the employees' standpoint, in 1935, Social Security was a big gamble. Employees would be required to participate in the program, contributing a percentage of their income for their entire adult working life.

Social Security should have a self-sustaining portion that was funded by contributions from both employers and employees. That's what we know and have known for 70 successful years.

Certainly Social Security needs to be reformed.

Social Security is an extremely complicated program.

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.

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.

Social Security is the most important social program in America.

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.

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.

We got to fight to protect Social Security.

Social security is the most successful government program in our nation's history. We are not going to cut social security! We are going to expand social security!

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

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

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

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.

Unlike most government programs, Social Security and, in part, Medicare are funded by payroll taxes dedicated specifically to them. Some of the tax revenue pays for current benefits; anything that's left over goes into trust funds for the future. The programs were designed this way for political reasons.

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

A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.

Social Security is one of the greatest achievements of the American government, protecting our elderly against poverty and assuring young people of a more secure future.