Richard Thaler Quotes

Social Security is a family insurance program, not an investment scheme.

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?

Social Security is fundamentally strong.

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

Social Security is an extremely complicated program.

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.

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 is the widest accepted contract in our society.

Social Security is a cruel hoax … unjust, unworkable … and wastefully financed.

Social Security is the most important social program in America.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

Germany, I think, was first to substitute a Social Security program for its elderly based on this premise, that is, that we would tax workers to pay retirement benefits for those retired.

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

I want to protect and preserve social security and Medicare.

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.