Newt Gingrich Quotes

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

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

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.

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

Social Security is fundamentally strong.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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 a promise that we cannot and must not break.

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

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

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

Social Security is the most important social program in America.

We got to fight to protect Social Security.

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.

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.

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

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.