Dick Durbin Quotes

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 a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

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

We got to fight to protect Social Security.

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

Social Security is the widest accepted contract in our society.

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

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.

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

There's a lot of people out now around America who depend on checks from their fellow taxpayers being in the mailbox every day.

The promise of Social Security was reflected in President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's inter-generational compact that rewards hard work and provides retirement security.

I don't support getting rid of Social Security.

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

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?

Only 44 percent of Social Security beneficiaries perceive themselves to have benefitted from a government social program.

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 fundamentally strong.

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.

The Social Security Act offers to all our citizens a workable and working method of meeting urgent present needs and of forestalling future need. It utilizes the familiar machinery of our Federal-State government to promote the common welfare and the economic stability of the Nation.

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

Social Security is not a retirement savings plan; it is a social insurance program. It's a contract that says, as a society, we will look out for you and your family when you can no longer work.