Ted Deutch 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 is the widest accepted contract in our society.

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 program that should be strengthened and preserved for future generations.

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

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.

All Americans have a sacred duty to guarantee Social Security benefits to our nation's senior citizens.

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.

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.

I don't support getting rid of 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.

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 a plan that actually was designed in a much different time, in a different era, and with a different set of American demographics in mind.

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

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.

We got to fight to protect Social Security.

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

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.

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 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.